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    Posted: 18 May 2008 at 8:27pm

After seeing your fantastic birthday cakes, I have been inspired to try and make DHs cake myself?!? Yikes!!

I have a couple of questions (that are prob really obvious, but I have never made one before!!!)

Where do I get a cake board - or do you use something else to put the cake on?

Icing - do I just use a simple recipe (like from Edmonds book) and add colour food colouring - or I am better using the block stuff (but how do I colour it?)

How long before the day can I make it - ie is it okay to do it the day before? How do I store it?

I know the design I am going to make - and its fairly simple, a kite shape, so its just about getting the colours right!

Sorry if these are dumb questions - but guess I have to start somewhere!

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We have got a big white flat platter that I used to put the cake on. It worked really well. Otherwise I was going to cover a big wooden chopping board with tinfoil.
I made the cake two days before and then iced it the day before.
I used butter icing for mine - the recipe was in the birthday cake book. It was really easy to spread. I have read on here that lots of people say the roll our icing is easy but I wasn't that brave!
A kite cake will be cool! Enjoy!
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SimSam, i will find a big post on here a while back that has a big speil about the icings and how to colour them and all that.
Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja

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Thanks Janine - any help greatly appreciated!!!
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Simsam you can get cake boards at Spotlight that you can re-use!
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it's bumped... it's in the general board... because when i wrote it the fancy pancy subject boards didn't exist yet. lolol. funny to read it.

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I just put tin foil over my cake tin bottom for Sam's birthday cake. I couldn't justify $10 for a cake board at spotlight!

I made the cake the day before and iced it the night before the party, although I could have actually done it a few days before.

I made a marshmallow fondant (really easy) and coloured it by putting it in a sandwich bag with a little bit of the gel colour and kneading it until it was all mixed. It was all really easy and tasted yum!!!!

Good on you for giving it a go

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