Home-made cakes thread 2

emmzy

Hiya I bought myself a wilton 3d bear pan from ebay as a christmas present to myself and it just keeps falling apart! Apparently pound cake is the best recipie to use so i googled it theres some that use sour cream or yoghurt or some that just use a LOT of butter lol any clever person who knows what theyre doing reccomend a recipie to try? Thanks

AnnieH

Emmzy I'd recommend the easy vanilla cake from bbcgoodfood.com, or a plain Madeira cake.

Here's a few of my Christmas bakes, rather than post them all here, there's a link to my flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hairymcfairy/sets/72157628427457031/

StarSquishy

Thought I'd add some of my Christmas cakes:

punkpink

punkpink wrote: »

(not my cake...yet)

I'm doing this birthday cake for my neices birthday in about a week or so...ill post a pic up of mine when its done and then i can compare them! Looks like fun!

I finally made it

It's not the same but i improvised and i'm quite happy with how it turned out!

Love the blue cake with snowflakes too ^^^^ :T

Golden_Anemone

Those are gorgeous Annie and Starsquishy - so professional. Just finished this week's batch of Christmas present cupcakes - I have 3 lots this week and 5 next for staff. Nowhere near as good as yours but hopefully they will be appreciated.



There are ginger with crystallised ginger in the buttercream, vanilla with the christmas trees and chocolate with chocolate ganache buttercream roses. Think the box needs some red so will include some in next week's boxes.

Golden_Anemone

Just seeing yours punkpink - it's really lovely.

AnnieH

They're all fab :T well done ladies

awesome2_2

StarSquishy wrote: »

Thought I'd add some of my Christmas cakes:

Hi Starsquishy

Lovely cakes especially like you Christmas cale could I ask where dd you get your coloured balls from on your cupcakes

Thanks

StarSquishy

awesome2 wrote: »

Hi Starsquishy

Lovely cakes especially like you Christmas cale could I ask where dd you get your coloured balls from on your cupcakes

Thanks

The pink and blue pastle balls are the silver spoon sachets. About 20p each in Sainsburys


Thanks all for the lovely comments

Emma133

Hi ladies just popped on for a bit of advice, I am baking cupcakes for a party tomorrow I have done my vanilla ones no problems, but my chocolate ones have all shrunk away from the paper and look awful - not sure what the problem is as its the same receipe as the vanilla just substitued a couple of spoons of flour for cocoa powder, any ideas? I'm going to have to start again but not sure what to do lol