Home-made cakes thread 2

scottishf

My first attempt at a giant cupcake...

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moosetastic

Wow Nat and Kevin, absolutely splendid cakes there, thanks for the recipes Kevin, i never seem to make anything other than vanilla or chocolate so its nice to see that it is easy to make differences

scottishf, to add images, when you go to imageshack, photobucket etc it should give you several links you can copy and paste. you need the one with [IMG]at the front and back of the link, it should then put the pic straight into the post. I'm making vintage style cupcakes for my mums birthday later today so will post pics when I'm done [/img]

bindiboo

scottishf wrote: »

My first attempt at a giant cupcake...

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How do I add an image to the post without uploading to imageshack etc ?

here you go scottishf

VfM4meplse

Wow, Kevin and scottishf, your creations look amazing! Now I'm happy with my cake tastes and textures, maybe I should think about getting the appearance more professional-looking. The only thing that puts me off is all that sugar, it's not good for me....

moosetastic

Here are the vintage cupcakes I've made for my mums birthday tomorrow - vanilla cupcakes, lilac vanilla icing, with rice paper hearts and butterflies, with white shimmer pearls

Nanamia

Gorgeous Moosetastic so elegant she's gonna be delighted. Well done

Get you have you started staging your photos too? They look fab too

moosetastic

Thanks so much Nanamia, I really hope my mum likes them! I wanted to start making my cakes look better so tried the staging for the first time tonight. Got some satin material coming to make it even better in the future, but think these look great for my first attempt

nat82

Kevin, Moose and Scottishf - fantastic cakes!

I used a 1A tip for the giant cupcake, its just a big hole in the top!

Football top cake baked, ready for icing in the morning

BOBBIs_MUMMY

Ok cake made for creating Mater for DD's 5th birthday party - day after her birthday. Have just made my first giant cupcake for her actual birthday, think I can manage piping the top part can I ask please what do people do to decorate the bottom section??
Also, invested in some trex to make the butter icing, know some of you use half trex and half marg/butter and seem to remember someone saying they don't use as much icing sugar as fat - what proportions do you use please?? I usually do double amount of icing sugar to fat.

Sorry for all the questions!!

Kevie192

Hi bobbis mummy,

I use half Trex and half butter and a bit less icing sugar than you.

For 12 cupcakes I will use roughly (depending on the style of piping sometimes I can get more!) 500g icing sugar, 167g Trex and 167g butter.

I'd always use real unsalted bitter for this and not marg as I think Mary might make it too soft. I use stork for making the cake though

HTH

Kevin x