Home-made cakes thread 2

bindiboo

littlebit wrote: »

This are great! especially at such short notice could i ask how you cooled them so quickly for decoration, was it in the freezer?

I bake 3 layers in a baking tray like a swiss roll tray so that I dont have to cut. They come out level then, leave to cool on wire racks. they dont take too long then

littlebit

thanks hun, never thought of Swiss roll trays, i did a ginger cake the other day in a deep tin it was awful took forever to cook tasted ok but wasn't happy with it lol so remade it in 2 2.5" deep tins i think they where turned out a lot better i also tweaked the recipe so it wasn't so treacle tasting it was a sticky ginger cake so was quite heavy, but anyway.. i see them dragging things out the oven on TV like cupcake wars etc and then 5 mins later decorating them i guess they have a blast chiller or something.

littlebit

Sticky ginger cake filled with with lemon cream cheese butter cream, lemon curd and topped with lemon flavoured icing, tasted nice was for my dads birthday hence Leo the lion lol but it needed to be a little more lemony and my decoration needs improvement i think but my dad was happy!

nat82

nettles77 wrote: »

can I please ask how you colour just the edges on your icing? Thank you.

I coloured a small amount of buttercream and then lined the inside of the bag with it before adding the uncoloured buttercream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMY6mwGE2Rw&feature=plcp

nat82

My wedding cake. Bride and Groom loved it and every said it tasted great. I was sick of looking at it by the time it came to the wedding!

frugalelly

Hello everyone. I have a question about a cake I have to make for the children that live next door to me. I've been asked to make them a cake for christmas as its like their tradition to have something different as a cake each year apparently.

I was wondering how to decorate it though, or what shape to make it. There's 10 kids aged between 16 and 1, and another one on the way. Boys and girls. The parents always try to make it about the children, so I was thinking something like rudolph might look okay but I don't know if that's too childish for the older ones?

Any help here would be great! Thanks!

HannahIOW

Hi, does anyone know an easy way or know a website which tells you how to work out what it costs to make a cake? I used to make them in my old job and there is a possibility I may be able to supply a cafe with cakes.

nat82

HannahIOW wrote: »

Hi, does anyone know an easy way or know a website which tells you how to work out what it costs to make a cake? I used to make them in my old job and there is a possibility I may be able to supply a cafe with cakes.

http://www.cakebaker.co.uk/cake-recipe-pricing-calculator.html

I'm sure it was bindiboo that posted this site so I can't take the credit!

HannahIOW

Thank you

bindiboo

nat82 wrote: »

http://www.cakebaker.co.uk/cake-recipe-pricing-calculator.html

I'm sure it was bindiboo that posted this site so I can't take the credit!

lol thats the one! another for sizing up receipes for tin sizes is

http://www.cakebaker.co.uk/baking-tin-size-conversion-calculator.html