Home-made cakes thread 2

HannahIOW

moosetastic those look fab! Don't suppose you have a pic of the tin you baked them in? I can't visualise it... sorry if it's already been posted and I missed it.

babyrut

moosetastic wrote: »

so, I was busy at the weekend christening my new whoopie pie tins, they are amazing, love them so much, they were so easy to use and to clean afterwards!

here are a couple of pics, just filled them with buttercream and dusted with icing sugar, will be a bit more adventurous next time I make them I think, they went down a storm though!

They look great I use the same scoop I use for my cupcakes but they still come out very uneven, is the tin from Lakeland by any chance.

babyrut

moosetastic wrote: »

they do look interesting, as someone who has never tried to make cake pops, and therefore doesn't know how complicated/easy it is, this would be a good place to start, and the outlay will only be for this kit if I found out it wasn't for me. Will definately think about buying one when I get paid x

A thank you so much!

moosetastic

Hi Babyrut, and Hannah, yes its the tin from Lakeland that I have - this one in fact - http://www.lakeland.co.uk/14857/Whoopie-Pie-Tin as you can see, £7.49 each

However, I bought mine off Ebay from here - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WHOOPIE-PIE-CAKE-BAKING-TIN-TRAY-NON-STICK-/110730046426?pt=UK_HomeGarden_Kitchen_Cookware_GL&hash=item19c8066bda

£2.99 each plus p&p of £2.49. When they came, they still had the lakeland packaging on them. I just used the tiniest amount of cake release on them and the pies just popped out, really brilliant, cleaned lovely as well.

lisa26_2

The woopie pies look scrummy!!

here's some pics of the ruby wedding cake and matching cupcakes I made for the in-laws, hope they're not too big!!











The writing piping's a bit wobbly and I wasn't really happy with the finish of the sugar paste but it wasn't too bad!

AnnieH

Moosetastic the whoopee pies look delicious. What flavour are they?

Lisa26 wow I love the roses. The cake s look lovely

moosetastic

AnnieH wrote: »

Moosetastic the whoopee pies look delicious. What flavour are they?

Lisa26 wow I love the roses. The cake s look lovely

Hi Annie, I did half vanilla (like a victoria sponge, will definately put jam in them next time to make it purely like one!) and half lemon with vanilla buttercream. Was toying with drizzling icing over the top of them but that will be for in the future I think. They went down a storm though, they didn't last an hour at work!

Lisa, your cupcakes are amazing, love the icing and the roses

susiecm3

Im a cake newbie, really want to make more cupcakes, it has been costing me a fortune buying cupcakes for birthdays etc as I lurve them

Can anyone recommend a good buttercream recipe? my last few have either been horrendously sweet or too soft, also how do you fill the centre of cakes?? If there are any books you could recommend that would be great

Some of the cakes on here are amazing

babyrut

susiecm3 wrote: »

Im a cake newbie, really want to make more cupcakes, it has been costing me a fortune buying cupcakes for birthdays etc as I lurve them

Can anyone recommend a good buttercream recipe? my last few have either been horrendously sweet or too soft, also how do you fill the centre of cakes?? If there are any books you could recommend that would be great

Some of the cakes on here are amazing

I use 110g butter and 400g icing sugar plus roughly 50ml milk, I beat the butter then add the icing sugar and some of the milk and mix with a fork, then use a hand blender- otherwise you will get all the icing sugar in your mixer and it will stop working, a couple of months ago (before using this method) I broke one in less than a day!!! I also use tate and lyle sugar which you can get in lidls cheap, its less gritty! I use a knife to cut out a bit of cake and put jam/ lemon curd in and then put cake back in. The hummingbird books are fab- I use quite a few of their recipes and have nothing but compliments! Hope this helps!

susiecm3

Thanks, will look for those books, going to try some more tonight, I have ordered some better wilton nozzles so hoping the might be here tomorrow