Home-made cakes thread 2

Nannyto9

shegirl wrote: »

225g unsalted butter
225g light brown sugar
4 medium eggs,seperated
1 orange -juice and grated zest
175g wholemeal flour
2 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp mixed spice
50g ground almonds
110g chopped walnuts
350g carrots (obviously grated lol)

That'll do an 8 inch cake.

With the eggs,seperate then beat the yolks into the ,already creamed,butter and sugar before adding the orange zest.Add the rest of the dry ingredients.Whisk the egg whites until stiff then fold into the mixture,then add your carrots.

Hollow the mixture in the centre of the tin a little then chuck in the oven for 75-90 minutes at 180

Never tried sugar pasting one!

Thats a great recipe been looking for a good carrot cake recipe for ages.

Nannyto9

Love your cakes Bindiboo you have great talent there.

Nannyto9

can someone please give me the link to the Easy Vanilla Cake have looked and looked through the post and think I must be going blind as cannot find it.

Nannyto9

moosetastic wrote: »

grrrr im so annoyed tonight. got to get some decorations ready for the baby shower I baking for next week. Have bought a pram and a stork silicone mould from ebay, they have both snapped!!! :mad: now Ive had to order pre-made ones and cost me more money!

Question - does everyone use moulds, buy pre-made, make their own? thought I would buy the moulds as they are reusable and could use them again and again, but they have turned out to be the biggest waste of money ever! not happy

I have brought a few moulds of this lady on Ebay and as they are sillicone they are great sorry it wont let me put in a link if you type in emlems-bakery you should be able to find her she does some great moulds

Nannyto9

bindiboo wrote: »

thanks check out youtube

http://youtu.be/AFx38a7Bjfw

i just printed my image and placed greasproof on top

Thanks this is a great tutorial will be using it on my next birthday cake x

nat82

Easy Vanilla Cake!

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/10860/easy-vanilla-cake

britbok

Nannyto9 wrote: »

can someone please give me the link to the Easy Vanilla Cake have looked and looked through the post and think I must be going blind as cannot find it.

It is http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/10860/easy-vanilla-cake hope this is the one you are looking for

Just seen Nat82 has posted it as well

Nannyto9

Wow finally read all the posts and there are some great cakes on here and lots of useful information. I love making cakes and love doing craft fairs. At the moment its just a hobby but would love to make it a full time job.

Was going to put up some images but cant find out how to shrink images down have shrunk them in Photobucket but still coming up to large so as soon as I can work out how to do it will put some up.

Happy Baking everyone x

Nannyto9

nat82 wrote: »

Easy Vanilla Cake!

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/10860/easy-vanilla-cake

britbok wrote: »

It is http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/10860/easy-vanilla-cake hope this is the one you are looking for

Thanks to both of you will be trying this one out at the weekend x

Nannyto9

Made this one today my first big cake normally make letter cakes or cup cakes.



Some of my letter cakes