Home-made cakes thread 2

pookiewn

awesome2 wrote: »

Hi

The only thing I can think of is the oven is set to high, Do you bake it in the centre of the oven and waht number is the oven on? I sounds as if the cale is cookin to quick on the outside which will cause it to crack as it waits for the inside to cook

HTH

Thank you, that's what I thought too. So with another try today, I've got the oven set just below gas mark 2 and the cake is closer to the bottom than it was yesterday - but it's still cracked! At least it's not as bad as it yesterday's and with two cakes there should be more than enough and some cake pops too, lol!

Chris25

tiff wrote: »

Can anyone share some cake decorating forums, preferably UK based? Currently looking at Cakecentral but would like a UK based one if poss. TIA x

http://www.cakecraftworld.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3 is this one of any use?

tiff

Yeah that forum looks good but not very active, I've searched for others but not found anything yet.

murie

Hi there- I brought my tins recently and my first attemp at the chocolate fudge cake (a few posts back) was an amazing sucess! I was so chuffed that yesterday I made the good food vanilla cake (also mentioned on here) but I'm not happy wth it at all! Its a very heavy cake despite following the instructions to a T (especially the not over mixing part). Has anyone got a nice cake recipie that they use for a decorated celbration cake (ie iced)? Thanks in advance for letting me pick your fooodie brains!

Chris25

tiff wrote: »

Yeah that forum looks good but not very active, I've searched for others but not found anything yet.

tiff - do you follow any cookery or baking blogs? If there's a particular question you wanted to know the answer to, you could always post it in the Comments section after a post - just a thought

tiff

I only follow two at the moment but will follow some links and see what I find.

Chris25

tiff wrote: »

I only follow two at the moment but will follow some links and see what I find.

do you know this one? http://blog.maisoncupcake.com/

this one is good too http://cakejournal.com/

this has a few links http://www.cakedecoratingclasses.org/cake-decorating-blogs/cake-decorating-enthusiasts/

I'm sure wehave links to a couple of others but need to search
**will need to ask my daughter, can't find them**

this is one she uses - it is a US one though - http://www.bakerella.com/

sorry tiff, can't find the other - apologies if you already know of these listed.

tiff

Thanks for the links, already subscribed to Bakerella but will def have a look at the others.

moosetastic

Baking mad have a forum, not sure how good it is, I only go on there for recipes and competitions! :rotfl:www.bakingmad.com

aboxa

Hi there all im kind of new to this so apoligies if i am posting in the wrong place..i am wanting to get into cake making does anyone know of wher i can get piping bag n cake stand spatula on a budget??