Home-made cakes thread 2

AnnieH

Lovely cakes rubysmummy

awesome2_2

Hi Ladies
Just a quick question do you all colour your own sugarpaste or but it in the colour you need? I want to make a two tier cake and cover it in mint green but dont know whether to but it all ready that colour or to colour it myself. The bottom will probably be a 9 inch the top a 7 inch so just worrying that if I colour it msyelf that is a lot of sugarpaste to colour and also worried about the icing being all the same colour as I would have to do it in batches.
I am having trouble sourcing the mint green sugarpaste and can only find one supplier on the internet. (feel like I have rambled a bit here sorry to bend your ears:p)

Thanks

Lucy_In_The_Sky_2

Those cakes up there are fantastic!

flea72

awesome2 wrote: »

Hi Ladies
Just a quick question do you all colour your own sugarpaste or but it in the colour you need? I want to make a two tier cake and cover it in mint green but dont know whether to but it all ready that colour or to colour it myself. The bottom will probably be a 9 inch the top a 7 inch so just worrying that if I colour it msyelf that is a lot of sugarpaste to colour and also worried about the icing being all the same colour as I would have to do it in batches.
I am having trouble sourcing the mint green sugarpaste and can only find one supplier on the internet. (feel like I have rambled a bit here sorry to bend your ears:p)

Thanks

if i need to make a big batch, i make several small batches and then put them altogether for a final working, so it just evens out the tone

however, you can usually judge by eye, or rough counting dobs of colouring - you might, but no-one else really notices a slight shade differentiation between tiers - espec if you have something that splits the divide (be that pillars or a ribbon, etc)

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cherydee

Has anyone made the Hummingbird Red Velvet Cupcakes...thinking about making some tomorrow. Recipe states 40ml of Dr.Oetker red food colouring...the btls are 38ml do you think I will get away with just using that. Also the bottle I bought is Dr Oetker Natural Red colouring do you think there is any difference between that and red !

X_YuMmY_X

Rubysmummy - Love the cakes! What icing nozzle do you use for the cupcakes?

AnnieH

cherydee wrote: »

Has anyone made the Hummingbird Red Velvet Cupcakes...thinking about making some tomorrow. Recipe states 40ml of Dr.Oetker red food colouring...the btls are 38ml do you think I will get away with just using that. Also the bottle I bought is Dr Oetker Natural Red colouring do you think there is any difference between that and red !

Natural red will turn your cakes brown. You need to use an artificial red for red velvet. I use sugarflair Red extra, as you don't need so much as it's super concentrated.

cherydee

AnnieH wrote: »

Natural red will turn your cakes brown. You need to use an artificial red for red velvet. I use sugarflair Red extra, as you don't need so much as it's super concentrated.

That's a disaster then Annie, I've got all the other ingredients in to make them...if I buy a red colouring in a sml bottle will that be ok as I'll not be able to get sugarflair red extra.

AnnieH

cherydee wrote: »

That's a disaster then Annie, I've got all the other ingredients in to make them...if I buy a red colouring in a sml bottle will that be ok as I'll not be able to get sugarflair red extra.

Oh yes, any red colouring will be fine, as long as it's not the natural one. I love red velvet cakes

cherydee

They do look nice in the book........do you crumble one up to decorate the tops as they suggest ?