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Home-made birthday cake
katiecoodle
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Hello I've just made this for my husband's birthday (can you tell he's a drummer) - I reckon it cost me about £8 in all, including the icing which I bought...
I'm so proud - this is obviously a cheap attempt to show off my cake, thinly disguised as a moneysaving idea!!!:o
I'm so proud - this is obviously a cheap attempt to show off my cake, thinly disguised as a moneysaving idea!!!:o
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That looks lovely, katie! Is it a sponge or a fruit cake?0
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Thats a lovely birthday cake and you've made a brilliant job of it but £8 is an awful lot to spend on a homemade cake.Does that include purchasing cake tins etc?I only ask this because I make an awful lot of birthday cakes and no sponge has ever cost me that much to make
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katiecoodle wrote: »It's chocolate sponge actually - I've got a foolproof recipe if anyone's interested...
This looks lovely. I would love the recipe. I'm always on the lookout of recipes especially of cakes!:D
BTW, did you buy all the icing ready made, or did you sort of shape them yourself?0 -
Very professional looking
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How do you get the icing so smooth?[FONT="][/FONT]0
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The amount of icing, colouring (esp ready coloured red icing and the silver stuff ) is expenzive, cake board too, looks like a big cake too. Making decent home made occasion cakes isn't cheap, especially if you use good quality ingredients, but a lot nicer than stuff from the shops.
I've done quite a lot of cakes for people in the past. Icing smooth? I learnt that in cake dec class, you use a smoother!
SOrryy, editing, it looks great, will have to remember that for when a rabbit in a hat or a crocodile or mermaid won't do![SIZE=-1]"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad"[/SIZE]
Trying not to waste food!:j
ETA Philosophy is wondering whether a Bloody Mary counts as a Smoothie0 -
ravylesley wrote: »Thats a lovely birthday cake and you've made a brilliant job of it but £8 is an awful lot to spend on a homemade cake.Does that include purchasing cake tins etc?I only ask this because I make an awful lot of birthday cakes and no sponge has ever cost me that much to make
Lesleyxx
I would spend about that for the cake, icing and tray too. And it would cost a damn sight more from a bakery.
It looks great. :T0 -
Great cake Katie....please could you post the recipe.
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Fantanstic cake, you can't beat homemade, but how do you get the icing sooooo smooth, would love to be able to do that, what is the secret?0
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