Home-made cakes thread 2

nat82

I love my prospero MYMP! We use it for loads of things (mainly cakes though!) x

britbok

Legendmum - loving Mario
Monkeymagic - beautiful cupcakes, I really must invest in a grass nozzle, what issue did the stencil come in?
Julie03 - Wow they are great cakes, haven't tried a tiered cake yet.
MYMP - Glad you like the Kenwood, am loving mine.

One quick question - when baking cakes that call for vegetable oil do any of you have a preferred brand or do you get whichever is on offer.

Thanks

nat82

I just used what was on offer britbok!

nat82

My latest effort!

moosetastic

thanks britbok and makeyourmummyproud and nanamia, I thought it would be quite daunting to do but it was quite easy. I made an 8oz cake mix (8oz of sugar, butter, flour, 3 eggs, 1 tsp baking powder and 1tsp vanilla) and split it into 2 bowls, and then adding the gel colours a bit at a time to get the right colour, then baked them in 8" tins. I made the red and green ones last wednesday and froze them, then made the orange and blue ones on saturday.

Awesome2 and legendmum, the chequered flags i bought were, again, from ebay (my favourite haunt, cant you tell?! lol). they were only a couple of £, nothing too much, and the chequered ribbon around the bottom was from ebay as well. this is the link to the ribbon - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190580016333?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
and this is the link for the flags - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cupcake-Cake-picks-Harley-Davidson-Checkered-Flag-Transportation-plane-train-/400295089594?pt=Uk_Crafts_Cake_Decorating_MJ&var=&hash=item9c0106b947

I agree with monkeymagic and get a grass tip, it will really help I think.

julie03 and nat, amazing cakes!! really liking the cupcakes monkeymagic, cant wait to use my stencils from the cake decorating mag!

makeyourmummyproud

Britbok: I just used one from 99p store, cheaper than Asda.

awesome2_2

nat82 wrote: »

My latest effort!

Nat

This cake is fab well done how di you get it so neat and how did you get the pic on the front is it all sugarpaste I lke the cream stripes they are so neat and straight :T

Monkeymagic

nat love that latest cake. Thanks for lovely cupcake comments. stencils were in issue 6. I didnt subscribe as dont think mag is that great, its so thin! I just pick it up if i fancy the freebies. i saw number 7 at weekend but freebies were nozzles similar to some i had. would be v cross if had subscribed and was waiting weeks. complain - i would!

nat82

Thank you Monkeymagic and Awesome!

The picture on the front was a printed cake topper provided by the lady I was making the cake for. I was actually a bit anal about it all and hubby and I measured out all the dimensions for the stripes and he drew templates onto baking paper and I used them to cut around!

It's not as neat in real life though! The photo hides a multitude of sins (as is usual with my cakes!)

rachel90

Do any of you have a fab recipe for a 20cm square tin vanilla sponge?
Thanks x