Home-made cakes thread 2

awesome2_2

Hi Nat

Have you tried the Lindys chocolate cake recipe as cupcakes? should think they would bake lovely and it is a rich chocolate taste mmm. I have treid both tappits and clixsticks and have trouvle with both:rotfl:Last month it took me about 3.5 hrs to make 19 letters with the tappits they drove me insane I suggested they should be called smashitts as thats what i wanted to do with them by the time I had finished:rotfl:However Nanamia suggested using florists paste and rolling very thin then leave it to sit to harden for a min and they are supposed to come out a dream. Clixsticks I couldnt get the letters out even rolling very cery thinly I think the trick is to use the florists paste on both. I bought my clixsticks from Windsor Cake Craft website.
Good luck for whichever you choose

nat82

I might get some florists paste and try that. I've just been using sugar paste mixed with some gum trag. I love Lindys chocolate cake and use it all the time for my big cakes. I never thought to use that recipe for cupcakes although I've used a similar one. X

moosetastic

nat82 wrote: »

Thanks ladies!

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

I got mine from my favourite place Ebay, partyanimal sell the full sets (upper case, lower case and numbers for about £16 for all three) or they are around £6 each. Just looking now, someone's selling the full set of Block letters, its 99p at the moment, sometimes you can fall lucky! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WINDSOR-CLIKSTIX-Block-Upper-Lower-and-Numbers-Set-/190731297214?pt=Uk_Crafts_Cake_Decorating_MJ&hash=item2c6878a1be

I just use sugarpaste with mine, roll it out thinly, the trick is to make sure the clikstix is well covered in icing sugar/cornflour/whatever you use as a release agent, do that and they pop out virtually every time

nat82

I love party animal! That's ehere I buy all my sugar flair colours from! Will have a look. Thanks x

Slack_Alice

Right doing a cake for my friends 21st birthday and she loves white chocolate so want to incorporate it into a cake. The whole cake doesn't need to be white chocolate or anything, just want some white chocolate in there somewhere.

Ideally what I would have wanted was to do a proper iced cake - i.e. Vanilla sponge with sugarpaste and maybe some flowers.. I need to practice lol. But I'm pretty sure anything white chocolate will not go with a normal cake!

So turning to this forum for some serious help/ideas!!!

julie03

you can buy white chocolate sugar paste, or you could do a vanilla cake with white chocolate fingers and white maltesers on top which looks very effective

nat82

Or instead of buttercream, you could fill and crumb coat with white chocolate ganache? X

lushlifesaver

Hi, hoping one of you lovely experts can help me!

I've been asked to make some cupcakes for a 50th anniversary next week and they would like gold writing - the cake will be iced in a plain colour (red or blue most likely) but they are adamant they want the writing in gold what would be the best way to achieve this?

lushlifesaver

lushlifesaver wrote: »

Hi, hoping one of you lovely experts can help me!

I've been asked to make some cupcakes for a 50th anniversary next week and they would like gold writing - the cake will be iced in a plain colour (red or blue most likely) but they are adamant they want the writing in gold what would be the best way to achieve this?

would it be better to suggest a light gold sugar paste icing for the cake covering then the writing be in a different colour?

moosetastic

here is my latest creation, a 40th birthday cake for my friends partner, he loved it!!



as for the gold cupcakes, could you use ivory sugarpaste to cover the top of the cupcake then use ivory sugarpaste with gold lustre dust and cut out the letters? Or use ivory buttercream and put gold sparkle hearts or flowers on them? Could you do coloured discs of fondant and then use a gold icing pen?

........... oooh just found this on google, Wilton do a gold sparkle icing tube - http://www.cakekraft.co.uk/ingredients/icing-gels/sparkle-gel-gold