Cake Making & Baking Group

[taperjeangirl]

Blah, for decorating I have gone a bit crazy buying stuff this time, I used to decorate cakes and just sort of winged it!

So far I have bought
a nylon rolling pin
a sharp edger
smoother
icing glue
flower paste for making all the daisies!
flower cutters
letter cutters
flower wire 24 gauge
wire tape
a cake turntable
cake dowels (cos I am doing a stacked cake)
I have a brand new pack of craft tools that I bought for clay but never used so will e using them for icing
some quality brushes for using glue and adding glittery bits.

Alot of all that depends on how you will be decorating your cake, I would definitely get the edger, it gives a cake a more perfect finish imo!

 

[Tilly]

I love making cakes, heres some of mine:

I made this for my boyfriend on valentines day, it's a gooey sponge with a chocolatey, fudge icing.. it was delicious with double cream
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a53/tilly206/14022008059.jpg

My brothers requested christmas pressie, was meant to be handmade decorations but I wasn't well near xmas so I went with shop bought! and I couldn't get a nice cake board last minute.. so a tad disappointed with it but it tasted lovely and I don't even like xmas cake
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a53/tilly206/S6006101-1.jpg

Made this for my mums birthday, first time I did the piping stars
https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a53/tilly206/cakey.jpg

I have made cakes for years, but only got more into decorating them recently.. id do more but the equipment can get expensive. I would really love to have my own cake shop! and do lots of cake courses etc. I am planning on making Bethanie a cake for her birthday this year, so I will have to get some pics when I do and I always make my lemon cake, so i'll try to get a pic of that too.

nuttymummy, your cakes are really good

 

[x-Rainbow-x]

they look yummy!!!

does anyone know if i ice the fruit cake will it be ok till the 23rd aug or should i stop being impatient and wait!!

 

[nuttymummy]

bubbles, your cake is sinking because ur opening the oven doors too early. or taking out of the oven before its done properly. Leave it as long as possible with the doors shut, and i can guarantee youll have a lovely 'un-sunken' cake!!!!

pinksnowball....if its fruit cake u can ice it with marzipan, and then rolled fondant. it will last for months!! (just make sure no dust gets on it!!!) xx

 

[Blah11]

Blah, for decorating I have gone a bit crazy buying stuff this time, I used to decorate cakes and just sort of winged it!

So far I have bought
a nylon rolling pin
a sharp edger
smoother
icing glue
flower paste for making all the daisies!
flower cutters
letter cutters
flower wire 24 gauge
wire tape
a cake turntable
cake dowels (cos I am doing a stacked cake)
I have a brand new pack of craft tools that I bought for clay but never used so will e using them for icing
some quality brushes for using glue and adding glittery bits.

Alot of all that depends on how you will be decorating your cake, I would definitely get the edger, it gives a cake a more perfect finish imo!

Few Qs, what's flower wire and flower paste?! Also, will I need dowels if its only 2 tiers?

 

[taperjeangirl]

Blah, for decorating I have gone a bit crazy buying stuff this time, I used to decorate cakes and just sort of winged it!

So far I have bought
a nylon rolling pin
a sharp edger
smoother
icing glue
flower paste for making all the daisies!
flower cutters
letter cutters
flower wire 24 gauge
wire tape
a cake turntable
cake dowels (cos I am doing a stacked cake)
I have a brand new pack of craft tools that I bought for clay but never used so will e using them for icing
some quality brushes for using glue and adding glittery bits.

Alot of all that depends on how you will be decorating your cake, I would definitely get the edger, it gives a cake a more perfect finish imo!

Few Qs, what's flower wire and flower paste?! Also, will I need dowels if its only 2 tiers?

The flower wire is a really thin peice of wire covered in paper, and flower paste is a type of icing best used for making sugar flowers!

The dowels depend on whether you are stacking your cake it will need support or they will just sink into each other xxx

 

[Blah11]

https://www.pinkcakebox.com/images/cake1070.jpg

Gonna attempt this for my mums birthday but 2 tiered, not 3! Looks simple enough for my 1st go! How is best to do those flowers? Is it just fondant cut out with a daisy cutter but 2 layers? Also, how do you colour your fondant ?

 

[taperjeangirl]

awwww I got some inspiration for that exact cake for Daisys birthday cake! I have just made some Daisies like that, yeah just cut out 2 maybe 3 and layer them together with edible glue.

You colour your fondant by dipping a metal skewer into food colouring and poking it into your bit of icing, then knead it til it is all blended.

I would use rubber gloves or you will end up with really colourful hands!

 

[Blah11]

Thankyou for your help I need to still perfect my sponge but i did make a lemon madeira cake and it was delish and the perfect texture for a bday cake!

 

[taperjeangirl]

I have just made a sponge, it came out good but not as perfect as I want it to be! I will decorate it tomorrow then post a pic!

 

[bigbelly2]

ive only just seen this thread..
i started cake making a short while ago, ive kind of perfected the sponge and the butter cream (this is what im told and the sponge is REALLY light) here are a few piccies from start to last cake...feel free to ask me any questions and ill help if i can!
h x
my first tiered cake
https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/haylebop/finito.jpg

nans birthday cake
https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/haylebop/cake5.jpg

my friends baby boy cake i did...the toes were a bugger lol
https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/haylebop/feet.jpg

a friends moms 50th cake
https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/haylebop/pippacake.jpg

one i did for a little boy who was 4
https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/haylebop/powerr.jpg

a mothers day cake
https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/haylebop/cake6.jpg

my moms birthday cake,,,.the top tier
https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/haylebop/cake7.jpg

tommys 1st birthday cakes..nightmare i was really ill and had to get it done in a day so it wasnt what i wanted!!
https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/haylebop/tcake.jpg

i wont bore you any more ladies..sorry i didnt meant to post so many
h x

 

[taperjeangirl]

They are all fantastic! Not boringa at all, post more!

Would you be willing to share your sponge recipe and method?! I am just not mastering the perfect sponge at all! I am even considering buying in the sponges then decorating them myself!

 

[x-Rainbow-x]

wow there fantastic!! please tell your sponge/ buttercream recipies!!

 

[Blah11]

wowee hope mine are as good!

 

[cupcake]

Lil update from me, I made the elmo cake in the end. My MIL brought me the cakepan as a gift, so I made a chocolate cake ( from a box shock horror! as I was pressed for time )
then i made a butter cream frosting and tinted it red, black and orange with gel icing colorings. It came out fabulous and really tasty. The icing was very hard to get on the cake, so eventually I just used my fingers and dipped them in water to spread it, it took about an hour and a half to ice but was well worth it! will try put a picture.

 

[nuttymummy]

nice cakes!!!

looking forward to pics of elmo cake!!

 

[taperjeangirl]

I want to see elmo too!

 

[bigbelly2]

course i will...its basically equal quantities, egg flour sugar butter bit baking powder etc ill get the whole recepie and exact amounts tomorrow and pop it on here. likewise with the butter cream.
Im in the middle of making two more cakes for fri night...a two tier and a single tier, (two tier is for a 60th birthday party and single is a 10th anniversary) ill put some pics up as and when i can..

h x

 

[taperjeangirl]

OOooo thank you! I did the equal quantity one last week and it didn't turn out well at all! I really don't know what I am doing wrong!

 

[DonnaBallona]

This is the recipe I used tp make Brooke's christening cake-I did a 9-inch square. I was crafty and did this recipe twice in the same tin as I didnt want to have to cut the cake in half to put jam in the middle-Id only have completley mucked it up!!

9 INCH MADEIRA CAKE

8oz Butter
8oz Caster Sugar
Zest of 1 Lemon, grated
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
4 Eggs
8oz Plain flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder.

*In a bowl, mix the flour and the baking powder together. It has to be sieved twice to mix it well and aereate the mixture. Set to one side.

*Cream the Butter and Sugar together. Add your Eggs a litte at a time, beating well after each addition.

*Fold in the Flour/Baking powder mixture and the Lemon Zest-stir it gently with a metal spoon until mixed in.

*Spoon into the tin and bake in the oven for around an hour at 170 degrees, until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. (I have a fan oven so the cake only needed about 40 mins.)

*Let the cake cool for 5 mins in the tin after removing from the oven and then turn out onto wire rack.

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This cake is SUPER yummy!! Good luck Andrea-if I can master it, then you definatly can. . .

Ill try and add a picture of Brooke's cake soon-my OH has nabbed the camera its on for work-DOH!