Home-made cakes thread 2

awesome2_2

HI Nat

Sorry carnt recommend any books bit found this if its any help
http://www.marshmallowfluff.com/pages/whoopie_pies.html

awesome2_2

Hi Nanamia
Your cakes look lovely could I just ask have you done them in two tins or one and is it a 8" tin? If it is how much mix did you use
Thanks

Monkeymagic

Evening all. Can i have some help? Hired shaped tin today (golf bag) and not used one before. Normally i would grease and line a tin but clearly cant do that so should i grease and flour or just use butter? Also it is quite shallow tin, with ones like these would you still try and cut in half to buttercream the middle? Thanks

Monkeymagic

Nat your text book cake is really clever. i like the font used for 'law'. Did you use cutters to do that?

VfM4meplse

Monkeymagic wrote: »

Normally i would grease and line a tin but clearly cant do that so should i grease and flour or just use butter? Also it is quite shallow tin, with ones like these would you still try and cut in half to buttercream the middle? Thanks

I find a good wipe around the inside with a paper towel dowsed in flavourless vegetable oil to be best for perfect results from my bundt tin - after my first attempt with fat and flour failed. With a shallow tin, it's definitely worth sandwiching the centre to make it look more substantial. I would add extra flour to give more structure (ie a madeira rather than a sponge) and poke skewers all the way through the sides to help guide a sharp knife. I'm no expert but it's lay advice that has worked for me.

Nanamia

Wow Nat your graduation cake is fab:) well done you. Fancy the website thanking you personally:) What a lovely hubby you have a mini break and online subscription- bless him. I collected my magazine from the news agents this week and it has the "Hamish the cow cake" from the site as a feature. I think fate is saying "join join join" but my bank account is groaning:(
I've not used a shaped tin Monkeymagic but think I'd grease we'll with oil, might be worth investing in "cake release" thingy they sell in Lakeland tho. It'd be awful to have an accident when it comes to getting it out of the tin!
Awesome you are too kind:) Yeh I usually use my 8" tin unless people request a larger one. Brooke's cake was Lindys chocolate recipe which produces a lovely deep cake and the other two are Madeira using 350g sr flour, 350g Lurpak , 350g caster sugar, 175g p flour, 6 eggs and splash of vanilla extract:) hope that helps (I've recently uped the mixture to make a deeper cake so pleased that you've noticed) x
This weekends creations

VfM4meplse

^^^^You've been busy, great results as usual! Do you use some kind of stencil set for your lettering?

For anyone still lusting after a Kitchenaid, take a look at this thread on the Grabbit board. Otherwise, Lidl has a Silvercrest 600w blender with lots of attachments for sale for the princely sum of £14.99 from 2nd July - I already have one and can highly recommend it.

Nanamia

Aaw thanks VfM yeh they are cutters FMM tappits and florist sugar paste. They do a couple of different fonts I've seen Nat use the "funky" set too:)

Golden_Anemone

Lovely cakes Nanamia and Nat - as always!

2 giant cup cakes this weekend - this was for a Friend's birthday



and I've not quite finished another one for my sister's birthday tomorrow.

littlebit

nat82 wrote: »

Graduation cake (excuse the mess in the background!)

That looks sweet i like the way the icing seems to have a shimmer to it.