Home-made cakes thread 2

monz

scaredy_cat wrote: »

this is a christmas cake i made for a local Christmas Craft and Food Fair, to be sold for local children's hospice.

That's amazing!x

mr_knight

Oh dear I need help. Your cakes look fab but I can't even bake mine. I am using an 8884 oz recipe with 2 tablespoons of milk and a teaspoon of vanilla. Cake is taking longer to cook than book suggests but it comes out looking all risen and fab but it soon becomes flat as a pancake. Please help as I need to have it ready for this afternoon arghhhhhh.

stressedoutmumof1

Hi, what size tin are you using?

Sounds like a 7 inch round... if it is I would use

8oz soft butter/marg
9oz caster sugar
8oz SR flour
4 eggs
2 tbsp cold water

Bake for 1 hour 10 mins at 160 C

Hope that helps!

mr_knight

Ok 1 hour 10? There lies my problem. Slightly different from the time in my book Andy 50 minutes isn't quite long enough. You would use water not milk? Any reason (just curious)

mrs_baggins

hopefully attached is the princess cake i have made for my gd. have never done anything like this before and am glad its turned out so well. not sure how easy it will be to cut as had a few problems with cake and had to paste some of it together with icing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12639716@N07/8234737254/

hmmm that didnt work how i thought it would. hopefully this will. maybe

mr_knight

Thanks stressed out mum. The time was the problem. Not perfect but it isn't too bad. The iced cake (IMO) looks quite good and I am really pleased with it. I would post a picture if I knew how

moosetastic

havent been here for a little while, lovely cakes peeps as always!! :T

thought I would share a cake that has just been picked up for my friends little girl



here are some cupcakes I did for my friend who did Movember (he raised £736 in total, the cupcakes raised £66)



mr knight, to post pics, upload your photos into photobucket and then just copy and past the IMG code into the message box and it puts up the pic

bindiboo

Sharing my latest creation. First real fondant cake as I normally use fresh cream. This was made for my nephews 21st birthday party.

Eggless sponge as usual!

monz

amazing!! wow

awesome2_2

Hi Bindi

Your cake is amazing how did you get the can to stay up and what did you use for the froth well done on your first go at sugarpaste