Home-made cakes thread 2

bellamonkey

Moosetastic - thank you very much for the info on the lettering on your cake, I will be ordering them today. I am a amateur at cake making but I think this may help the look of my cakes, fingers crossed.

moosetastic

nanamia, thats a good idea, think it will work, you will have to give it a try and let us all know!!

sarahlasvegas - glad to be of help! Ebay is full of wonderful things, I just get carried away sometimes!! lol

Cotton wool katie, ooooh small world indeed, who would have thought it??

bellamonkey, you're welcome hun, they are really easy to work with too, they are rapidly becoming my cutter of choice! just wish they did some that were a bit smaller. need the numbers next!

Nannyto9

moosetastic wrote: »

nannyto9, where did you get your letter and number tins from? I have always been intrigued by them, but they seem so expensive?

I brought them from here Silicone Moulds they are £38 + shipping for the letters and £15 for the numbers bit expensive to start with but like everything once you have them you have got them and as they are silicone they last for ages. You can buy them in singles if you want specific letters or numbers but does work out more expensive that way.

Monkeymagic

Hi all, long time lurker on this thread. Just wanted to chip in that I have bought some of those butterflies from ebay too and they were great. Used them for the cupcakes for my daughters 6th birthday party at the weekend. Hope pic isnt ridiculously huge

becs

Ah beautiful cupcakes Monkeymagic! Absolutely gorgeous!

nat82

Gorgeous cupcakes Monkeymagic! Think I'll need to get ome of those butterflies.

Nanamia

I agree Nat,lovely cupcakes Monkeymagic they look gorgeous but they tasted yum too

tealeaves

one last question if anyone can help me before i start, for the easy vanilla cake, to make one 23cm cake, would you do a 6 or 7 egg mixture seeing as the 20cm in 5 eggs?
thanks

nat82

Use 1 and 1/4 x your recipe for a 23cm so I think you'd get away with 6 egg mix.

I use the Lindy Smith chart to change my recipe quantities.

HTH

Gelly123

Hi all, I'm fairly new to posting on the forums but have been lurking for a while and reading this thread with great interest.

**Hello** :wave:

I'm making a baby shower cake next week but will be doing a trial run in the next day or so - but the mum-to-be can't really have flour so I'm planning on making a gluten free lemon drizzle cake but without the drizzle - with lemon buttercream icing through the middle instead and then icing and decorating it.

The receipe is on BBC Good Food but as I'm new on here, i can't post the link - sorry!

But I can't find anywhere that sells Dr Oetker Gluten Free Baking Powder - have tried Mr S's & Mr T's but no success.

Can you help?

Many thanks
Gelly
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