Home-made cakes thread 2

Anny11

OMG
Outstanding Delicious cake
i'm hungry now.

slybuys

About to try Trex for the first time today, think I will break myself in slowly with a 50:50 Butter:Trex ratio, I usually use the Hummingbird Frosting recipe (pretty stiff) has anyone tried adapting this for Trex/could someone recommend a good recipe for me pleasssse ??

AnnieH

slybuys wrote: »

About to try Trex for the first time today, think I will break myself in slowly with a 50:50 Butter:Trex ratio, I usually use the Hummingbird Frosting recipe (pretty stiff) has anyone tried adapting this for Trex/could someone recommend a good recipe for me pleasssse ??

I find the Hummingbird Bakery buttercream *way* too sweet. I use my own recipe, which is 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup Trex, 3 cups icing sugar, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 1 tsp vanilla bean paste, and add milk to get required consistency. It's really nice.

abatha

Bindiboo I picked up a pack of the football cases a couple of days ago, quite a bargain! I'm going to use them to make some cakes for my brothers birthday - chocolate sponge with a vanilla frosting which will be dyed green - the aim is for them to look like mud with a grassy top, but we shall see!

bindiboo

Making 2 birthday cakes this weekend for my Nephews joint celebrations. Will be egg free sponge with fresh cream and fruit and choccie fingers and maltesers.

Not needed til Sunday so I'm making the sponge layers today, putting it all together tomrw so that its got an overnite chilling time in the fridge. fingers crossed it all works and goes fine. post piccies laters

odollybird

odollybird wrote: »

hi all, just needing a bit of advise please i have been asked to make a birthday cake for a 7 year old girl that has a nut allergy and i dont know what sort of ingredients i should be buying to ensure this .

any help would be appriciated ,thanks

bump?
any help appriciated.

jlp123_2

I would just advise reading the packaging carefully. I have a daughter and husband with a milk allergy and I find that I have to read everything as different manufacturers have different ingredients and processing.

Golden_Anemone

odollybird wrote: »

hi all, just needing a bit of advise please i have been asked to make a birthday cake for a 7 year old girl that has a nut allergy and i dont know what sort of ingredients i should be buying to ensure this .

any help would be appriciated ,thanks

As long as none of your ingredients include nuts and you haven't used any of your utensils on something with nuts and then not washed it you will be fine. An ordinary cake mix would be fine. Remember marzipan, almond paste and ground almonds all contain nuts.

The reason why lots of shop bought cakes are not guaranteed free from nuts is that cakes which do contain nuts are manufactured on the same premises and basically they are covering themselves in the unlikely event of contamination.

Golden_Anemone

cherydee wrote: »

As my grandaughter likes carrot cake...I was thinking about doing her a carrot cake, giant cupcake for her birthday. I have ordered the wilton grass nozzle to decorate the top and also bought tiny sugarpaste carrots to decorate it with......just wondering will I be able to colour the cream cheese frosting green to make it look like grass ?

Green paste colouring is the way to go. Liquid would need too much to give a strong enough green.

cherydee

Thanks golden anemone........making cake for 18th Aug so plenty of time to buy it. Having second thoughts about making it a giant cupcake now...as it cuts into quite large slices and breaks up. Probably just do a normal cake...as we are surprising grandaughter with a spa day and taking the cake with us. She's feeling pretty down as her friends will be on their hols when its her birthday and she thinks her mum is working and has n't got time to do anything with her.....little does she know that both her grandma's, mam and step mam are taking her for a full day of relaxation with her breakfast and lunch there as well !