Suggestions for individual cakes

Toonie

Hello everyone, looking for a bit of advice. Its my boyfriends birthday on the weekend and he is having a party, I said I'd make some cakes and I'm looking for things which I can make or at least serve in individual portions. I need to bake for around 30-40 people. My only idea so far is to keep it simple with fairy cakes and a dusting of icing sugar, but if anyone has any other ideas I'd love to make a few different things. Thanks

pretz_2

i would make a very large batch of fairy cake mix the seperate and put different flavours in each like

carrot
chocolate
blueberry
white choc and raspberry
cherry

hth
pretz

Olliebeak

Those sound delicious pretz.

carrot cake version - you could turn them into butterfly cakes. Take a slice off the top of the cake and cut it in half to form the wings of the butterfly. Make some frosting (same stuff that you normally get on carrot cakes) and place some onto the top of the fairy cake. Put the wings into place to resemble a butterfly.

frosting ingredients - (put all into a bowl and beat till well mixed)
55 g butter, softened
110 g cream cheese, softened
240 g icing sugar
2.5ml vanilla extract
60 g chopped pecans/walnuts (optional)

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the cherry ones - you could cover with some water icing and half a glace cherry on top

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chocolate - some chocolate water icing (replace couple of spoons of icing sugar with some cocoa and sift thoroughly) on the top with some chocolate flake 'shards' pressed into the icing - then they'd be triple choc fairy cakes!

I'm sure that the blueberry and white choc/raspberry ones would be quite delicious as they are - both are quite strong flavours.

blueneleh

How about chocolate eclairs? mmmmmmmmm:)
There's loads of different recipes for them if you look on google and you can make different sizes.

HTH

Mellika

Olliebeak wrote: »

carrot cake version - you could turn them into butterfly cakes.

Just what I was going to say, you beat me to it!
Had them on Sunday for my nephew's birthday, had forgotten how cute they look...

shegha

how about profitarols (cant spell them, but love to eat them) you could leave them plain and serve with a hot chocolate sauce or rasberry/ fruit sauce with ice cream

Toonie

Thanks for the suggestions, I think I'll stick with the different flavoured fairy cakes. I've got a few things in, so will have a go and see what happens.