Home-made cakes thread 2

Kirsty262

I am after some cake decorating advice please. I can do cupcakes no problem and I can bake a good cake (so people tell me) the problem I have is decorating them!! I can't seem to get the fondant to go on smoothly. I am not sure if I rolled it too thin, any advice please. SWould love to do a cake decorating class but can't find one local to me (Leeds, W Yorkshire)

TINK21_3

Hi everyone .
New to this fab forum & recently started baking & decorating cakes .I am doing an evening class at night school and really enjoying it .Everyone is so good on here and I'm after some advice .We are doing a bonfire cake this week ,complete with matchmaker chocolates (yum)-we need to bake a cake in a pudding bowl to take which i'm ok with as i've done this before.My question is: does anyone know if you can make a chocolate madeira cake ?I have a tried and tested recipe that I always use but would ike to do a chocolate one as it is meant to be a bonfire .
Thanks
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pearsoneys

hi and welcome, whenever I've done chocolate I remove the flour, so on a 8oz butter,sugar,flour mix to 4 eggs i would remove 1oz flour and replace with 1oz cocoa. hope this helps :-)

just going to upload a cake for someone at work in the office :-)

pearsoneys

pennib

What a clever idea. I guess you work with computers!! Bet they were all well received.

pearsoneys

pennib wrote: »

What a clever idea. I guess you work with computers!! Bet they were all well received.

yes I'm at a school and i made this for a lady in the office, it was really handy for people to just com take one, i also made extra which i did with fancy icing that didnt match the cake but are more my trademark! :-)

Emms

pearsoneys wrote: »

yes I'm at a school and i made this for a lady in the office, it was really handy for people to just com take one, i also made extra which i did with fancy icing that didnt match the cake but are more my trademark! :-)

Lets see the fancy icing one too! Loving the little computer mouses/mices lol what ever they are called

Heres my cakes from this week




All they asked for for this was bright colours and Happy Birthday and the polish message on top so I hope they like it. Collecting it tomorrow.






These cupcakes were for a christening yesterday and it took me and my cake buddy a lot of hours to make all the little toppers and get it all together.

Emma

nat82

Hi everyone!

I've finally got some photos to add but it's ben about 2 years since I posted pictures on here and can't remember how to do it! I don't remember ever having to upload them to a hosting site first but can't remember how to get them to show up in my posts

Can anyone help please???

Thank you in advance x

moonpenny

nat82 wrote: »

Hi everyone!

I've finally got some photos to add but it's ben about 2 years since I posted pictures on here and can't remember how to do it! I don't remember ever having to upload them to a hosting site first but can't remember how to get them to show up in my posts

Can anyone help please???

Thank you in advance x

Not sure, but I think you can "Cut & Paste" pics now.

hogshead

My sis has offered to bake a batch of cakes for an event but I am to provide the butter which she says is the most pricy part of baking. Are there any deals/suggestions of which is best so long as it's unsalted as she requested.

Thanks