Home-made cakes thread 2

awesome2_2

Hi Nat

Your cake is gorgeous well done the roses are fab too what tip did you use for the icing? your looks much nicer the other one reminded me a bit of nipples:eek::rotfl:

Kevie192

Well we finished the mega bakeathon about half an hour ago and I'm now sitting down with a beer!

I snapped some pics for you

I don't really use recipes as such I just make it up as I think of it here's a rough idea though...

All the cakes start off as a standard 3 egg sponge for 12 cupcakes. I then flavour as follows:

Lemon: lemon flavouring in the cake and then once the cake is cooked and cooled it gets injected with lemon curd. The frosting also has lemon flavouring and yellow colour in half to get a nice two-tone effect.

White Choc and Raspberry: The cake is flavoured with white choc drinking powder, raspberry flavouring, real raspberries and chopped white choc. The frosting is split in half with white choc powder added to half and pink colour and raspberry to the other before piping.

Banoffee: the cake mix has a bit of vanilla and 2 bananas per 12 cupcakes added to it. I then hollow out a bit once cooked and fill with some caramel made from boiled condensed milk. The frosting has more caramel added and is topped with dried banana and drizzle of caramel. Definitely one for those with a sweet tooth!

Mint choc chip: cake mix has cocoa and liquid chocolate flavouring as well as chopped milk choc. Frosting has mint extract added. Topped with 1/3rd of a flake and little chocolate balls?

Hope you like them!

Kevin

Nanamia

Ooh Kevin they look so fabulous Your SiL is gonna be delighted. Quick question if you don't mind how did you preserve the bananas you've used as decoration?
You really are very talented. Do you ever do celebration cakes? I've not been on the forum long so apologies if I've missed them but think I've only seen cupcakes!

Kevie192

I tend to do cupcakes only at the moment. Two main reasons really; firstly, they scare me a little bit!!! And secondly, everyone always asks me for cupcakes because I'm the 'cupcake man' and I genuinely think people would be disappointed if I turned up with a big celebration cake and not cupcakes...

The bananas are the dried ones you can buy... Coated in honey I think.

Nanamia

Thanks for that Kevin you are a star.

becs

Ooh Nat it's gorgeous! Looks fantastic!

Kevin fab cupcakes as always! Wish my hubby baked.

Nanamia

I'm sorry to be such a pain Kevin but where do you buy white drinking chocolate ? I've never heard of it before, would love to try and recreate your masterpieces

Kevie192

The one I use is made by Options and should be in the supermarkets with the hot chocolate. You can get it either in sachets or in a jar but the jar works out much cheaper. I know sainsburys definitely sell it because that's where I got mine from

Sorry I meant to say the frosting I used on all apart from the Mint Choc is my old faithful half Trex and half butter with a bit less icing sugar than I think others use. I think this makes it a little less solid and sweet than the usual buttercream.

For the mint choc I use this frosting which is just delicious! Velvety smooth and soft, it's like a cross between marshmallow and ice cream. Not too sweet either and just a tiny bit less calories than a regular frosting!

awesome2_2

Kevie192 wrote: »

The one I use is made by Options and should be in the supermarkets with the hot chocolate. You can get it either in sachets or in a jar but the jar works out much cheaper. I know sainsburys definitely sell it because that's where I got mine from

Sorry I meant to say the frosting I used on all apart from the Mint Choc is my old faithful half Trex and half butter with a bit less icing sugar than I think others use. I think this makes it a little less solid and sweet than the usual buttercream.

For the mint choc I use this frosting which is just delicious! Velvety smooth and soft, it's like a cross between marshmallow and ice cream. Not too sweet either and just a tiny bit less calories than a regular frosting!

Hi Kevie

Your cupcakes look amazing just looked at the link for the frosting how much ingredients do you use to reolace the cups or do you acutally measure in cups

Thanks

got-it-spend-it

Wow Kevin, they are amazing! I've never thought to add white hot chocolate powder to cakes- what a great idea. Whittards do one too.