Home-made cakes thread 2

Golden_Anemone

I got a present of some cash from my great aunt today - combined birthday and christmas present - which meant I could finally afford to order the kenwood chef. Even better it was £171 when I last looked on Amazon and is now £159.

Can't wait for it to arrive.

AnnieH

Yay! I love my akenwood. Enjoy

awesome2_2

Hi Ladies :snow_laug

What is everyone doing with their christmas cakes this yr. I have three to ice and am strugglng for ideas this yr. Was thinking of a snowflake effect but the cutters are so expensive.Any tips would be appreciated
Thanks
:xmassign:

Cake4brains

Hi Awesome2, I have made 2 large christmas cakes and going to make 6 minis for hampers. Only icing 1 large one, probably with snowflakes

Thought I would share another cake I made

Golden_Anemone

awesome2 wrote: »

Hi Ladies :snow_laug

What is everyone doing with their christmas cakes this yr. I have three to ice and am strugglng for ideas this yr. Was thinking of a snowflake effect but the cutters are so expensive.Any tips would be appreciated
Thanks
:xmassign:

A few quite simple ideas here.

grumpys1daughter

Golden_Anemone wrote: »

I got a present of some cash from my great aunt today - combined birthday and christmas present - which meant I could finally afford to order the kenwood chef. Even better it was £171 when I last looked on Amazon and is now £159.

Can't wait for it to arrive.

lol I done the exact same thing this time last year it was my birthday on the 2nd december and I used the money I got for my birthday and treated myself to a chef premier xx

grumpys1daughter

This is the cake I made for dads 70th birthday on friday wanted to do a bit more decorating on it but ran out of time as I was also doing the catering for 120 people but I was quite pleased with how it turned out http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g437/disneynutuk/SAM_0428.jpg
http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g437/disneynutuk/SAM_0427.jpg

grumpys1daughter

nat82 wrote: »

I made this Club Penguin cake for my daughters 9th birthday on Tuesday. I'm really pleased with how it looked! Tasted great too and she was thrilled with it! All handmade and edible!

fantastic cake can I ask what you icing you used for the letters I have the cutter but cant get them to cut out thanks xx

Emms

grumpys1daughter wrote: »

fantastic cake can I ask what you icing you used for the letters I have the cutter but cant get them to cut out thanks xx

These cutters work best with flower paste or with fondant that has had gum trag added to it to make it harden, and you need to roll it quite thin and give the cutters a good bang off the counter for the letters to come out.

http://www.cakecraftshop.co.uk/shop/8/108/

Emma

nat82

grumpys1daughter wrote: »

fantastic cake can I ask what you icing you used for the letters I have the cutter but cant get them to cut out thanks xx

Thanks! I just used normal sugarpaste that I had added tylose powder to. It was the left overs from the penguins and puffles! You do have to roll it really thin as Emms said. And give them a good bang! Some of the letters I had to carefully poke out from the front and others just fell out. That was the first time I'd used them.