Home-made cakes thread 2

nat82

grumpys1daughter wrote: »

Can someone reccommend what the best colouring is for use in sugarpaste and buttercream the black and orange paste ones I bought just wouldnt go a deep enough colour wanted orange and black buttercream and fondant but the nearest I got was peach and grey thanks

I use Sugarflair and have never had any problems getting bold colours. Party Animal on Ebay sually have some good deals for them.

Angela

AnnieH wrote: »

This week's cake is for a "bring and share" lunch at church today. It's a light fruit cake (off bbcgoodfood.com) with a layer of marzipan (yuk) under the icing

I really really really like this especially for the occassion and time of year excellent.

Angela

Last weeks cake was my brother in laws 65th Birthday Cake, nothing this week but next week's is Peppa Pig

StarSquishy

grumpys1daughter wrote: »

Can someone reccommend what the best colouring is for use in sugarpaste and buttercream the black and orange paste ones I bought just wouldnt go a deep enough colour wanted orange and black buttercream and fondant but the nearest I got was peach and grey thanks

There is an extra black sugarflair colouring that you can buy. It does do the trick.

Red, brown and black are quiet difficult to colour deep enough. But always use the more concentrated colours like sugarflair as they really give you better results

AnnieH

Angela wrote: »

I really really really like this especially for the occassion and time of year excellent.

Aww thank you, Angela
The old dears at church liked it

AnnieH

Angela wrote: »

Last weeks cake was my brother in laws 65th Birthday Cake, nothing this week but next week's is Peppa Pig

That's ace! Were you tempted to sneakily put a 6-1 on instead of the 5? :P

Golden_Anemone

AnnieH wrote: »

That's ace! Were you tempted to sneakily put a 6-1 on instead of the 5? :P

Lol - that would have been cheeky!

Emms

Ive just been asked by my work today to make a cake for Friday for 300 people!!! EEEEK. Too good an opportunity to just say no to. Ive been pricing it up and I think it will cost about £110 in ingredients so taking in to account the time and work that will need to go in to it from now to then Im thinking of asking for £300. It seems like a lot but its only £1 a head which to me does not sound unrealistic at all. Any opinions?

grumpys1daughter

Thanks Nat and squishy will try and get some of them xx
I have my dads 70th Birthday coming up in a few weeks and would really love to make him a cake he's really into his music, plays accordian, flute etc and the 2 bands that he is a member of are going to be at his party anyone got any ideas how I could make these part of his cake any help greatly appreciated thanks xx

pookiewn

Emms wrote: »

Ive just been asked by my work today to make a cake for Friday for 300 people!!! EEEEK. Too good an opportunity to just say no to. Ive been pricing it up and I think it will cost about £110 in ingredients so taking in to account the time and work that will need to go in to it from now to then Im thinking of asking for £300. It seems like a lot but its only £1 a head which to me does not sound unrealistic at all. Any opinions?

It is suggested that the price for a cake is about 2-3 times the cost of the ingredients, so your costing sounds perfect! With that size, you could probably add another £30 to it without it being unreasonable.
Good luck, it sounds like a fun cake to make!