Birthday Cake help...
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Topic: Birthday Cake help...
Posted By: MummyFreckle
Subject: Birthday Cake help...
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 8:27pm
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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! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: katie1
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 8:38pm
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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! |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 8:40pm
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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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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 8:42pm
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Thanks Janine - any help greatly appreciated!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: peachy
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 8:45pm
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Simsam you can get cake boards at Spotlight that you can re-use! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 8:54pm
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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.
------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 18 May 2008 at 10:04pm
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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  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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