Home-made cakes thread 2

britbok

Moosetastic, love your Belle plaque and thanks for the link. Murie what a lovely elegant cake

Nanamia

Murie no wonder you were delighted your little sisters anniversary cake is beautiful. I bet they were thrilled with it. It's a small world isn't it, I've just bumped into you on another thread talking my other favourite subject Christmas:)

Moosetastic I love the Belle plaque, looks really fiddly did it take a long time to do? Can't wait to see the photos. Have you baked the rainbow cake yet?
I should have baked the cake for my Saturdays order tonight or yesterday really but ran out of time:( Early start in the morning for me. Still trying to decide on a design thinking pretty girlie but nothing finalised yet. Lovely little girl who's going to be 8:)

murie

Nanamia- its thier anniversary today so should get some feedback as to how it tastes tonight. Yup- the other thread is one of my all time personal fave subjects! ( it is nice to know I'm not the only one with that addiction! Even I was was beginning to doubt myself til I read everyone elses posts !)

Moosetastic- that plaque is beautiful! You are very talented- I'm jealous! I've never tried runouts, not sure I ever will cus stick figures dont have the same appeal and thats about my limit as far as drawings go!

murie

Has anyone ever made a topsy turvy cake? My daughter has asked for one for her 16th in july- I have youtubed it but it looks a tad complicated! Anyone got any tips? (I'm on a roll now!!)

BOBS

Hi all - total newbie to cupcakes but am hoping to make approx 70 for a golden wedding anniversary party. Where do you suggest I buy the muffin cases, gold decorations etc. and can any one point me to an icing recipe please. I assume that i need to try and vary the decorations from cupcake to cupcake?

BOBS

shegirl wrote: »

I made gorgeous white chocolate butter cream the other day

Vanilla extract (judge yourself how much to put in-I pour it in as the mixer bowl is still turning and start from by the beaters,in the mid section of the bowl, and keep pouring until the bowl has done a full turn),probably works out at just over a teaspoon
750g Icing Sugar
300g butter
150g melted milky bar!

Mix the icing sugar and butter,add the vanilla,melt the chocolate,stir it in and mix again.Absolutely gorgeous

this sounds lush - would it work for cupcakes ?

moosetastic

Thank you so much for all the lovely comments. Nanamia, I used a colouring book picture, print out 3 copies, and then just traced around the bulk of the shape, and added the detail later, the body & face is one piece, with the yellow dress on top, then the hair. Rainbow cake is over the weekend, eeeeek!!!

Heres a pic of what the colouring page was and the plaque -



Here's the cake in its full glory, Im not impressed with the sugarpaste on this one, the cake was way too bumpy and crumbly, so it doesnt look really round





BOBS, hello! The muffin cases I use are just from Home Bargains, nothing special, you get 125 for 99p - this is what they look like -



If you dont have a Home bargains near you, then I also use these from Asda, you get half white half brown, but they hold their shape really well - cupcakes made in these cases -

shegirl

BOBS wrote: »

this sounds lush - would it work for cupcakes ?

Definitely

It works well eating it on it's own too:o;)

BOBS

shegirl wrote: »

Definitely

It works well eating it on it's own too:o;)

lots of spoon licking / sampling required then!! - just to be sure tastes the same the whole way through bowl :beer:

shegirl

Has anyone tried making buttercream with mint or orange Aero?

Thinking of trying some choc and mint and chocolate orange cupcakes