Home-made cakes thread 2

zippybungle

I'm making my son a 'skylanders' themed cake for next weekend...pictures to follow...

Zippy x

Legendmum

Hey ladies your all doing beautiful cakes! DS's birthday is 1 month away and I am starting to stress! Can tell I am an amateur! Is it wrong to use packet mixes to do his chocolate sponge and if not can anyone reccommend any? Want to a rectangle cake but have no tin as yet as I did ont but it doesnt fit in the oven! So any ideas on that would be great too! Thanks xx

nat82

This is my fave chocolate cake recipe and it's so easy to make!

http://www.lindyscakes.co.uk/2011/02/02/lindys-chocolate-fudge-cake-recipe/

VfM4meplse

Legendmum wrote: »

Hey ladies your all doing beautiful cakes! DS's birthday is 1 month away and I am starting to stress! Can tell I am an amateur! Is it wrong to use packet mixes to do his chocolate sponge and if not can anyone reccommend any? Want to a rectangle cake but have no tin as yet as I did ont but it doesnt fit in the oven! So any ideas on that would be great too! Thanks xx

Hey relax, this isn't Mumsnet, we're not judging you !

I bought some rectangular tins from Robert Dyas the oother weekend, £6.99 BoGoF plus there was 20% off that day so woorked out at £2.80 each - but good buys even at £3.50 (you can mix and match with other tins).

HTH

awesome2_2

Monkeymagic

Bloomin heck that cake is fab how did you manage to make all that especially the colur of the buns and the lettice and cheese I am amazed

nat82

Monleymagic - that is one amazing cake!!! DId it take hours? I always want rid of mine once I've finished them too. I'm terrifed something bad happens to them while they're still in my charge!!!

MummyOfTwo

where do u guys buy your sugarpaste from?

Monkeymagic

Thanks girls. yes Nat it did take hours but mostly because only 5th cake have made so learning as i go and i do faff about
awesome the lettuce and cheese i coloured sugarpaste with gum trag added. cheese is just yellow with bit of pink to make it colour of that cheese that gets thrown on a burger (which i quite like). Lettuce just had little bit of green added then textured with ball tool, was easiest bit. for buns, i covered them in white then painted them with teddy bear brown mixed with vodka. think that made it more effective and less work than colouring the lot. reckon i am closet frustrated artist as that was my favourite bit

Monkeymagic

Mummy of two i get plain white from tescos and colour it myself unless need a lot of dark colour then buy from squires kitchen as live fairly close but theres loads of suppliers online and ebay

nat82

Mummy of two - I usually just buy white from the supermarkets or buy from http://www.cakescookiesandcraftsshop.co.uk/ or ebay x