Home-made cakes thread 2

Nanamia

I'm good thank you, just been preoccupied with Christmas preperations for months got some photos to update when I get a mo! How about you? What have you been upto? X

nat82

Not very much to be honest! Haven't done alot of baking recently. I'm 27 weeks pregnant with number 4 and the night shifts are killing me so have had to put baking on the back shelf for the moment xx

specialK

I have never seen this thread before and I am a caker!! Easily the best part of the forum for me....I all things sugar!!

Lovely work ladies!!

BaileyB

Hi everyone

My Son is having a Pirate theme party and looking for ideas for a cake.

He is 1 so thinking treasure chest, or just a 2 tier cake and go from there with coins etc.

Nuninge

BaileyB wrote: »

Hi everyone

My Son is having a Pirate theme party and looking for ideas for a cake.

He is 1 so thinking treasure chest, or just a 2 tier cake and go from there with coins etc.

My 4 year old has just had a pirate party and I did a treasure chest. It was a simple marble cake done in a loaf tin, cut about a third of the way from the top and then filled with lots of sweets. It was covered in a ganache and then dipped in white and milk chocolate chips. It was from a Sainsburys cakes recipe book and was dead easy to make. I crushed up a load of digestives as "sand" for it to lie on and had thought about using Guylian chocolate shells on the sand too. Hope that helps.

nettles77

How much butter/marg do you use in this recipe please? Thank you very much.

mae wrote: »

Hi Monz

Thanks

This is the recipe I use (although I didn't get it from Tesco) and I use butter not marg but the cake I tasted I could tell a real difference and it was so much lighter/fluffier than mine even though I had always been happy with mine til that point

BaileyB

Nuninge wrote: »

My 4 year old has just had a pirate party and I did a treasure chest. It was a simple marble cake done in a loaf tin, cut about a third of the way from the top and then filled with lots of sweets. It was covered in a ganache and then dipped in white and milk chocolate chips. It was from a Sainsburys cakes recipe book and was dead easy to make. I crushed up a load of digestives as "sand" for it to lie on and had thought about using Guylian chocolate shells on the sand too. Hope that helps.

Thanks

I may do 2 cakes. Have you got the recipe for the marble loaf cake please?

I don't suppose you have a photo do you?

Nanamia

Special K I love your signature I'm going to try and copy and paste it onto another thread. Hope you don't mind. X

Nat congratulations on baby number four I'm not surprised you've not done much baking! Be kind to yourself. X

monz

Hi everyone

Made a Christmas cake for my sons nursery. Guess the theme

marrbett

Lovely snowman cake. Well done.