Home-made cakes thread 2

AnnieH

nat82 wrote: »

Made the Good Food Easy Vanilla cake last night and it is AMAZING! Will definitely be my sponge of choice now for cakes! Just wondered if anyone had used this recipe for a Giant Cupcake?

Thanks!

No, but I love that recipe, and I'm sure it would be fine for a giant cupcake

Golden_Anemone

rubysmummy wrote: »

Ive been asked to do a bon voyage cake for a lady at work whose moving to Australia - can anyone give me any ideas what i should do - nothing too extravagent as i am not brilliant. i would love to try to make a kangaroo tho but cant find any tutorials, does anyone have any tips??

Thanks

My suitcase cake - see post no. 17 on this thread - was easy. It was for someone leaving for America but change the flag and luggage label and add a kangaroo if you want to and it would be "bonzo" as they say in Oz! :rotfl:

SkintBrideToBe

Hello ladies, im looking for a recipe for Lollicakes please if anyone has one? All i can find online os american versions and its not the ingredients i can get here.

many thanks

MULLY

Hi all,
just a quick question for all you amazing bakers , as gotta say all these cakes look amazing ,
my wife has had a lot of time of work and is trying hard to get into making cakes just for the family , she has tried the butter icing , but we find it very sickly, we have a bakers not far from us which do amazing cakes , but they will not let us know where they get their icing from or how to make it , was just wondering if anyone could give us any advice on it or point us in any direction of good sites ,

many thanks .

AnnieH

SkintBrideToBe wrote: »

Hello ladies, im looking for a recipe for Lollicakes please if anyone has one? All i can find online os american versions and its not the ingredients i can get here.

many thanks

Hi. All you need to make cake pops is cake, buttercream and candy melts. Crumble up cold cake, and mix with buttercream so it feels like playdoh. Shape and chill overnight, them cover in candy melts, or baking chocolate. Simples

MULLY wrote: »

Hi all,
just a quick question for all you amazing bakers , as gotta say all these cakes look amazing ,
my wife has had a lot of time of work and is trying hard to get into making cakes just for the family , she has tried the butter icing , but we find it very sickly, we have a bakers not far from us which do amazing cakes , but they will not let us know where they get their icing from or how to make it , was just wondering if anyone could give us any advice on it or point us in any direction of good sites ,

many thanks .

Hi, I find lots of buttercream recipes *very* sickly. I use 250g butter to 500g sifted icing sugar, 1 tsp good quality vanilla and a splash of milk. 1 tbsp if you like it thicker, 2 tbsp for thinner buttercream.

MULLY

AnnieH wrote: »

Hi. All you need to make cake pops is cake, buttercream and candy melts. Crumble up cold cake, and mix with buttercream so it feels like playdoh. Shape and chill overnight, them cover in candy melts, or baking chocolate. Simples


Hi, I find lots of buttercream recipes *very* sickly. I use 250g butter to 500g sifted icing sugar, 1 tsp good quality vanilla and a splash of milk. 1 tbsp if you like it thicker, 2 tbsp for thinner buttercream.

Thanks Annie ,
that worked a treat no where near as greasey and sickly as the pure buttercream recipes ! :jcan you recommend any other icing recipes for cupcakes / cakes, many thanks.

AnnieH

MULLY wrote: »

Thanks Annie ,
that worked a treat no where near as greasey and sickly as the pure buttercream recipes ! :jcan you recommend any other icing recipes for cupcakes / cakes, many thanks.

That's pretty much my staple for all cakes, sometimes different flavours or colours, but the same basic recipe. Ganache is nice for covering cakes. Equal amounts of melted chocolate and cream, whisked together. If it goes lumpy, the cream is too cold, it should be smooth and glossy.

Twinkles08

Hello,I have been following this thread for a while and love looking at the gorgeous creations.I love baking,especially when it's for other people.This is my latest cake that I did for my daughters 5th birthday.She's v v into rapunzal at the moment!The cake was chocolate fudge with strawberry pink buttercream. My daughter and her friends loved it-phew!
Hope nobody minds me posting a pic,well at least I'll try to post a pic,I haven't done it for ages

Ok,totally can't remember how to post a pic,I have a photobucket account,could someone plse tell me how I can upload it here?Thank you

rubysmummy_2

AnnieH wrote: »

That's pretty much my staple for all cakes, sometimes different flavours or colours, but the same basic recipe. Ganache is nice for covering cakes. Equal amounts of melted chocolate and cream, whisked together. If it goes lumpy, the cream is too cold, it should be smooth and glossy.

Annie, can I ask wat cream u use? Double or single or the one in a can? I've never tried ganache, I didn't realise that's all it was to make it!

Golden_Anemone

Twinkles08 wrote: »

Ok,totally can't remember how to post a pic,I have a photobucket account,could someone plse tell me how I can upload it here?Thank you

In Photobucket copy the IMG code for your pic and just paste that here.