Cake Making & Baking Group

[craftymum]

Silly question time - what do you all store your cakes in?

 

[Glitterfairy]

Tins usually at home or if i'm transporting them to someone or giving them as a gift i use cake boxes.

 

[Glitterfairy]

That link doesn't work for me CraftyMum. x

 

[Jo]

i can't see it either

 

[Whoppy-pop]

I can't see the pic either Craftymum.

Gorgeous cuppies and cakes everyone. Jac I'm just waiting for an excuse to have a go at that garden party cake, it's so pretty!

I need some quick advice. I'm making 2 cakes for 1 family and I'm wondering whether or not you think I've priced them propperly.

Manchester United cake - 10 inch round cake, chocolate with chocolate fudge filling. Main body of the cake will be red with a Man U embellem on the top and fondant footballs. The sides of the cake will have black and white stripe detailing. - £45 (all handmade no bought in designs)

Racing car/karting cake - novelty race car shape, chocolate with chocolate fudge filling. The board will have race track detailing. - £45 (it will use the same amount of cake as the one above)

Do you think £45 is too much? The ingredients, boards, ribbon etc will cost £18.87 per cake and I will have to pay delivery costs for my online purchases as well as buying in tappits specifically for these cakes.

 

[craftymum]

Oh silly me - prob cos it's my FB account. Here's another pic

 

[Glitterfairy]

Ooh looks fab

 

[craftymum]

Thanks Glitterfairy - the stars a bit wonky though I'm guessing things like that will get easier with practice although I think my cutter may have been too big.

 

[Tsia]

its cool.. I thought the stars were 'sposed to be wonky.. like a bit of the abstract look! lol
if they were orange and yellow theyd be great starfish! haha

anyways, heres my cupcakes I made for mylos birthday tea party tomorrow.

https://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s51/tsia977/Image0853.jpg https://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s51/tsia977/Image0854.jpg https://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s51/tsia977/Image0855.jpg

Choc delish and strawberry star!

(and as per usual the strawberry goes runny and doesnt peak once I have added the colouring and flavouring. I really need a method to combat this problem!) grrr

 

[Glitterfairy]

They look scrummy!

 

[babynewbie]

been having a nosey and all these are AMAZING! your all brilliant really makes me wanna try and do some but im crap lol

 

[Tsia]

I was saying that only 2 months ago and with the help of these ladies on here I am now confident enough to make My sons first birthday and christening cake next week..
thing is all your hard work and effort gets destroyed and eaten! lol

 

[Arlandria]

Fab cakes ladies xxx

 

[Pinkgirl]

wow some great cakes and cupcakes girls!

Love mylos cake its so sweet.
Jac tahat cake is gorgeous!

I made some sticky toffee cupakes the weekend...they smelt the whole house out it was lush x

 

[Lucy_lu_84]

Wow your cakes look amazing!

i want to make pretty cup cakes but i know mine would suck lol

 

[suzanne108]

Tsia - could you add more icing sugar until its the right consistency? x

 

[cassysuri2010]

Hello ladies i need some advice on a chocolate cake.

https://www.thecakestore.co.uk/cgi-..._of_copy_of_Chocolate_Box_Cake.html#a209#a209

Obviously its chocolate sponge but how would you cover it. To me it looks like chocolate/ chocolate fudge buttercream and not fondant? The chocolate shavings sprinkled over. Also the pig Ive never modelled anything for a cake before so what should i use to model the pig is just ordinary fondant or something different?

Thankyou for your help ladies x

 

[Eoz]

i'd use choccy buttercream and crumble a flake up x

 

[Pinkgirl]

Hey ladies not sure if this has been posted...but just come back from morrisons and they have had loads of new cupcake items in stock....i bought

1) cupcake stand, 3 tier, dispoable..its pink...made out of carboard....£5.5o
2) Star cupcake wrappers, pack of six, £1.99
3)100 spotty cupcake cases, brown, pink, blue and purple 99p
4) 45 foil cupcake cases, red, gold and silver £1.49 - nice but not as high as ones i previously have

Also bought brown cupcake cases...asda do brown and white but morissons have just the brow for 54p so got these.

They also had cupcake box that holds 6 cupcakes, no inserts, pack of 2 think they were £2.25

x

 

[sma1588]

i know its a little late but the baby shower cake and cupcakes done on 7-24-10.... my first cake done like w/ fondant hopefully it loaded