Home-made cakes thread 2

sharalee99

This is today's efforts-gonna have to start giving them away, we have cake everywhere lol.

makeyourmummyproud

Nat, thank you so much for the vanilla cake recipe. You know, I'm baking that for my friend whose name happen to be Nat as well.

makeyourmummyproud

sharalee99, cutie cupcakes! can i have one please? what nozzle did you use there? is it 1M? xxx

sharalee99

makeyourmummyproud wrote: »

sharalee99, cutie cupcakes! can i have one please? what nozzle did you use there? is it 1M? xxx

Thanks. Only the 2nd time I have iced, so pretty pleased. The pink ones are 1M and choccy ones are 2D.

supermum4

sharalee99 wrote: »

Thanks. Only the 2nd time I have iced, so pretty pleased. The pink ones are 1M and choccy ones are 2D.

Hi what topping did you use it looks very nice? I just tried the 1/2 lurpak and trex option tried the 2 colour cream into same bag putting the white in first then the pink but it didn't work just first lot came out white and then pink any idea why guys? maybe it was a bit thick never used trex before am i suppose to add milk or something:o?

sharalee99

For the choccy one, it was 50g butter, 50g trex, 150g icing sugar and 50g cocoa and 1 tbspn milk. The pink/white one, was half a tub of betty Crocker that I had left over, and the same butter/trex mix (without the cocoa obviously) and 200g icing sugar. I think the pink was still a little soft, but better than yesterdays attempt.
I also did the half and half, but I think the colours were so similar you can't really tell. Oh well, it's an excuse to do some more and have a play :rotfl:

supermum4

thanks sharalee will put milk in next time:( lol

Golden_Anemone

supermum4 wrote: »

Hi what topping did you use it looks very nice? I just tried the 1/2 lurpak and trex option tried the 2 colour cream into same bag putting the white in first then the pink but it didn't work just first lot came out white and then pink any idea why guys? maybe it was a bit thick never used trex before am i suppose to add milk or something:o?

Your cupcakes are lovely - well done. :T

Something that was very successful for me was to smear some paste colour on the inside of the icing bag with a 2D tip then add the icing and the paste will tint the edges of the roses. Each rose is different just as in nature. Oh and the buttercream was made with half and half trex/butter.

sharalee99

Golden_Anemone wrote: »

Your cupcakes are lovely - well done. :T

Something that was very successful for me was to smear some paste colour on the inside of the icing bag with a 2D tip then add the icing and the paste will tint the edges of the roses. Each rose is different just as in nature. Oh and the buttercream was made with half and half trex/butter.

Oooo, they are so pretty! :T

pennib

Sharalee99; Your cakes are beautiful I bet they taste lovely. Pity you don't live next door to me as you can pass them over to me!

Golden Anemone; How gorgeous are your rosy cupcakes. You almost don't want to eat them. Very clever.