Home-made cakes thread 2

julie03

i have heard of windsor cake craft clikstik, they are meant to much easier to use than tappits, not tried them though

nat82

Sorry if I'm being a bit thick Mildred. I was under the impression that this forum was about helping people, not making them feel stupid.

mildred1978

nat82 wrote: »

Sorry if I'm being a bit thick Mildred. I was under the impression that this forum was about helping people, not making them feel stupid.

That wasn't how it was intended.

I'm not sure what you're asking. Just make a batch of cake mix, divide into seven, colour each and bake and then sandwich as you would any other cake.

Gillyx

You can bake together with a rainbow cake. By dividing the mixture to colour and then layering back in the tin, you won't get a clean cut line, but it shouldn't mix up too much x

nat82

I've never done it before and just wondered if people could point me in the right direction. I wasn't sure if I should make the same amount of mix I normally do, divide and colour and bake separately or do as gilly suggested and put it all together pin the same tin once I'd coloured it.

Gillyx

You can do it either/or really. I don't have enough tins to do it separately so I've bunged it all in together as cupcakes and as a larger cake and it's worked Obviously just make sure your layers aren't too thin so you can see the colour difference. x

Dex

Hi Nat82, not sure if it'll help but I have a recipe I've used a few times

Cake - Put all ingredients together in a food processor and mix for 3 mins - you'll need to do this twice;
116g soft marg
116g caster sugar
116g self raising flour
2 large eggs
3/4 tsp baking powder
split into 3 bowls and colour - the colours need to be high grade to get them vivid - I used squires kitchen
I weighed them so you get the exact same size cakes for each layer
Bake in 7" victoria sandwich tins
15mins - I baked two at a time because that was the amount of tins I had )
I stuck together the layers once cooled with lemon curd.
Buttercream
250g lurpak unsalted
500g icing
2 1/2 tsp lemon essence
5 tbs of milk

HannahIOW

That looks fantastic!

moosetastic

nat82 wrote: »

Hi ladies!

Got a few questions I hope you can help me with!

Firstly, can anyone share their chocolate cupcake recipe please? I've tried loads of different ones but they all seem dense and stodgy

Also, are there any better alternatives to tappits for letters and numbers? It takes me ages to get them right. I let them dry a bit before getting them out the mould but find alot of them break and I then have to re-do them. It's driving me nuts!

Finally! I'd like to do a rainbow sponge cake and wondered where to begin! (I mean that actual inside bit all rainbow coloured, not a rainbow shaped cake!).

Thank you in advance xx

Hey Nat, for a rainbow cake, just make your normal cake mixture, make each layer a different colour and then sandwich them together. As for tappits, they drive me mental too. Clik stix are much much better as they have a release system and 9 times out of 10 they come out easily.

nat82

Thanks ladies!

Moose, any recommendations for where the best place to get clik stix? X