scaling up cake recipe - 9" square cake - UPDATE with pictures

JillD_2

loobysaver:
It is fairly easy, just a bit fiddly and time consuming.

Here are some girly ideas:

- butterfly cake ?
round cake cut in half and positined sp0 the curves are together not the straight bits
- rabbit ?
one round cake for face, other one cut two eye shaped pieces out of the sides so you ave 2 ears and a bow tie
- princess ?
bake a pudding bowl shaped cake, invert it, drape pink icing over it so it looks like a dress/skirt, stuff a barbie down the middle
ou could convert to a Little Mermaid cake and the pudding bowl shape could be a grey rock and you could sculpt on a mermaid tail shape.
princess castle - bake a couple of rounds and somehow make a couple of small rectangle with turrets on top - I would do this flat so its 2D but I bet it would be easy enough 3D

What movies does she like ?

Penelope_Penguin

Loobysaver wrote: »

Thanks Jill - you make it sound so easy.

I might give it a go - any idea's for a simple cake for a girls 6th birhday!!!!:D

I made a Hansel and Gretel cake for DD when she was small.

2 loaf cakes, one onto the board, cut the other in half to make the pitched roof. Stick together with butter cream. Cover the lot with more butter cream, then use you imagination to decorate Smarties for tiled roof, pink wafer for the door, jammy dodgers for round windows, mini roll for chimney.

I also had playmobil figures for H&G and the witch.

Penny. x

Churchmouse

Playmobil figures!! That takes me back:D Often incorporated them into birthday cakes! The big fort with cowboys inside, Indians outside and the cavalry riding to the rescue!!! (It was a huge cake to feed 20 classmates!)
Another time a burning building with the firemen rescue team:rotfl: All boys cakes though, I'm afraid. Although I did do a fairy castle for my niece. Take four washed out baked bean tins..........:rotfl:(just remembered i did a medieval castle using the same recipe, dressed with knights and barons. Yes my boys really did have every playmobil set going!!!!!!!)

Loobysaver

JillD wrote: »

loobysaver:
It is fairly easy, just a bit fiddly and time consuming.

Here are some girly ideas:

- butterfly cake ?
round cake cut in half and positined sp0 the curves are together not the straight bits
- rabbit ?
one round cake for face, other one cut two eye shaped pieces out of the sides so you ave 2 ears and a bow tie
- princess ?
bake a pudding bowl shaped cake, invert it, drape pink icing over it so it looks like a dress/skirt, stuff a barbie down the middle
ou could convert to a Little Mermaid cake and the pudding bowl shape could be a grey rock and you could sculpt on a mermaid tail shape.
princess castle - bake a couple of rounds and somehow make a couple of small rectangle with turrets on top - I would do this flat so its 2D but I bet it would be easy enough 3D

What movies does she like ?

There are some cool idea's there.

I asked my dd what cake she wanted and she first said "Bratz" (great:rolleyes: ) then she said I could choose. I don't think she would really mind as long as it is pink and pretty and has her name on it somewhere!
The butterfly idea sounds good as she has just been learning about them at school as they had a caterpillar turn into a butterfly which they then released into the school flower garden.

Penelope_Penguin

Churchmouse wrote: »

Although I did do a fairy castle for my niece. Take four washed out baked bean tins..........:rotfl:(just remembered i did a medieval castle using the same recipe, dressed with knights and barons. Yes my boys really did have every playmobil set going!!!!!!!)

That reminds me, I did a castle for DD when she was 4. Big square cake, then made 4 turrets out of ice cream cones. Playmobil fairies, too, if I remember

Penny. x

JillD_2

wow playmobil fairies, I wqonder if you can still get those, my daughter would love them.
Playmobil all seems to be diggers and motorbikes and fire trucks and policemen these days.

Churchmouse

JillD wrote: »

wow playmobil fairies, I wqonder if you can still get those, my daughter would love them.
Playmobil all seems to be diggers and motorbikes and fire trucks and policemen these days.

Things haven't changed much then!!!! Playmobil was very "boy" orientated it seemed to me, but as the mother of 4 boys I wasn't complaining!!!! ( There always seemed to be a surplus of Barbie/Sindy/Fairy girly things around:rotfl: )

Junedm1

Can anyone give me any idea how to correctly scale the ingreients correctly to fit the size of the differents size cake tins???

Addiscomber

Exact instructions for Madeira cake are in my post no 11. Otherwise what you need to do is work out the volume of each tin and divide the larger one by the smaller to get number to scale up by.

morwenna

I remember doing ever more elaborate cakes as my two got older - the one that started me off though was really simple (and unisex!!). Chocolate Hedgehog. Make an ordinary chocolate sponge sandwich - a three egger!

Sandwich cakes together with choc buttercream - you need a lot of this!

Cut the cakes in half and put them on the serving plate/board/the breadboard covered with foil/a swiss roll tin with coconut dyed green for grass.... straight sides down, sandwich with more buttercream to hold.

Carve a bit out at one end to shape the nose. Cover everything in more buttercream and stick choc buttons all over the curved part for "prickles."