I like cake!

DreamC · 13-07-2010 1:11pm

Sex and the City Cake

littleredspot · 13-07-2010 1:19pm

DreamC wrote: »

Sex and the City Cake

Thats a lot of effort/skill. The attention to detail of the cream on the inside of the heel is special. Great cake.

gavtron · 28-07-2010 10:26am

Guineapigrescue wrote: »

That's sooo much better than the supermarket bought one I got for my young ones birthday, I can't tell from the pic, did you make the characters or are they little figures?

that's awesome! i actually want that for my next birthday!!

Here's one my mother made for my niece's 4th birthday...It's tinkerbells house..

kerash · 28-07-2010 3:33pm

gavtron wrote: »

that's awesome! i actually want that for my next birthday!!

Here's one my mother made for my niece's 4th birthday...It's tinkerbells house..

That's awesome - love the curly wurly path

gavtron · 28-07-2010 4:49pm

i know, quality right...my niece wasn't happy with it though she wanted the doors to open and be able to put stuff inside!! :P

Pigwidgeon · 28-07-2010 5:44pm

Just attempted my first pie, a Mississippi mud pie

Acoshla · 28-07-2010 5:50pm

Sigma Force · 30-07-2010 1:45am

Cripes the cakes just get better and better Spadina& Dream C they are brill!

That mississippi mud pie looks yum too another one I must try.

Almost ashamed to put any cake pics on here now but here's a chocolate orange cake I made for family BBQ. Downside of it was that I had to use tinned segments for the top which aren't always the nicest, soaked them in lemon juice, orange juice and icing sugar for a while first to they would be ok to be left for a while on the cake without drying out.

Just love chocolate ganache it's so nummy and easy to do, about the only icing I can manage without messing it up.

hootietootie · 30-07-2010 2:22pm

Heres a peppa cake and a pony cake I did for some kids in my daughters class, next on the list is a Hello Kitty cake, should be fun
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littleredspot · 30-07-2010 4:08pm

kateos2 wrote: »

Just attempted my first pie, a Mississippi mud pie

Apart from a scrummy looking cake, thats a great photo!

DreamC · 27-08-2010 8:42am

Wedding Cake I made this week. Chocolate biscuit and vanilla sponge 12"-9"-6"

Sugar flowers cake top and corsage

kerash · 27-08-2010 3:25pm

Wow! Pretty cake DreamC, where/how did you learn to make such awesome creations?

BloodRedRose · 28-08-2010 4:21pm

All these cakes look amazing... I'm hungry now.

Lady Lainy · 29-08-2010 8:58pm

Its got to be carrot cake, Not always the sexiest of cakes or glamorous. But when made right, oh it could melt stone! I can resist everything on a dessert menu except carrot cake! Has to be homemade style bit rough around the edged, where you can see the nuts and raisons and shredded carrot, not this over processed carrot cake flavour sponge.

like below...the first pic is my idea of heaven in a plate....ooh must go over the weight watchers thread now and rant about how i want carrot cake.

Gaspode · 01-09-2010 11:19pm

DreamC wrote: »

Wedding Cake I made this week. Chocolate biscuit and vanilla sponge 12"-9"-6"

Sugar flowers cake top and corsage

DreamC, you're getting better all the time!

sandy_c · 04-09-2010 9:16pm

These are two cakes that i made recently. The first is a cake that i was just trying out as i'd seem something similar on the Internet and wanted to give it a try. It was a champagne bottle in a bucket. The entire cake is edible. The cake is a chocolate biscuit cake and the bottle is made from rice crispie treats.

The second cake is a madeira cake with raspberry jam and butter cream and then some cupcakes around the sides. I made it for a BBQ that my sister was having for the Dublin Simon Community.

Acoshla · 07-09-2010 11:12pm

Cake for Karate Instructor

barrigone · 08-09-2010 9:29am

just starting at this cake business as a hobby just loving it so im know im not up to most of your standard but said id post it up to see what ye think

showgirlrita · 20-09-2010 4:21pm

This was my 1st attempt at a Belly cake for my friends baby shower.

Eviledna · 20-09-2010 6:27pm

Love the outie belly-button

kerash · 20-09-2010 8:44pm

was there a baby inside the cake?

lintdrummer · 21-09-2010 9:18pm

Question for DreamC:

Did you make Ray Foley's 'Take Me Out' Birthday Cake? It looks very like your handy work!

You can see it here:

http://www.todayfm.com/Shows/Weekdays/Ray-Foley/Birthday.aspx#

DreamC · 23-09-2010 8:57am

No, no, no! It was not me. (I swear

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tootired · 30-09-2010 12:50am

Cake I made recently for a couples Silver Wedding Anniversary

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Sigma Force · 30-09-2010 1:51pm

Ill try and post pics soon am currently in the land of cakes, Germany, might have to book an extra seat back on the plane have eaten everything in sight!

Love that Karate cake Spadina it's so cute!

guym · 30-09-2010 11:45pm

Just tripped over this thread now, some great cakes on here!! Here's a few that I've done in the past.

p.s. how do you get the pics to show up in the post??

Faith · 03-10-2010 2:44pm

They're amazing guym!

Quick question: When you're using several different colours in the icing, say like in the plumber in the last picture above, do you paint the colour on when the icing is on, or do you colour it first and then shape it and everything? I can't even imagine how you do some of it!

guym · 03-10-2010 3:17pm

Thanks for the nice comments faith. In answer to your question I would mostly colour the icing & then shape it, although on the plumber cake the floor tiles were painted.

Faith wrote: »

They're amazing guym!

Quick question: When you're using several different colours in the icing, say like in the plumber in the last picture above, do you paint the colour on when the icing is on, or do you colour it first and then shape it and everything? I can't even imagine how you do some of it!

tootired · 04-10-2010 10:27pm

A cake I made recently for an 80th birthday, the gentleman is a pioneer but does love a ciggie!!

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littleredspot · 06-10-2010 11:20am

Anyone going to this? http://www.ichf.co.uk/cake/
Thinking of heading over and back on Saturday

Acoshla · 06-10-2010 11:30am

Yeah I'm going over and back on the Friday, hoping to pick up a good few bits and pieces minus the mental postage costs

tootired · 06-10-2010 5:33pm

That looks great - has anyone gone before? Can you buy items from the exhibitors, I went to an exhibition in the NEC in Birmingham but could only buy direct from exhibitors on the last day - had to place an order on the other days and get it sent. Mind you that was a costume jewellery exhibition so same rules may not apply.

guym · 06-10-2010 10:00pm

another one of my cakes, just seeing if I can get the image come up instead of a link.

wow, that came out a bit big!! How do you resize the pics??

Acoshla · 06-10-2010 10:14pm

tootired wrote: »

That looks great - has anyone gone before? Can you buy items from the exhibitors, I went to an exhibition in the NEC in Birmingham but could only buy direct from exhibitors on the last day - had to place an order on the other days and get it sent. Mind you that was a costume jewellery exhibition so same rules may not apply.

Yeah you can buy from them no problem, was at the same thing before and the Squire's Kitchen one last Spring.

guym you should be able to resize the image on the site you uploaded it to first, then add it by url etc.

DreamC · 07-10-2010 10:06am

Select the resize option on the site you use to download your pics before you download them there. Usually 500 pixels is a nice size for posting photos.

guym · 07-10-2010 10:37am

One of my christmas cakes from a couple of years ago

Finally got this picture posting sorted. Thanks for the help! I've been making cakes for friends and family for a few years now would love to do it for a living but don't think it's feasible. Let me know what you think of the cakes, theres plenty more to see!!!

littleredspot · 07-10-2010 12:44pm

tootired wrote: »

That looks great - has anyone gone before? Can you buy items from the exhibitors, I went to an exhibition in the NEC in Birmingham but could only buy direct from exhibitors on the last day.

According to the website there's lots of shops. I was over at it a long time ago and ended up well laden down. If customs had of stopped me with all my little clingfilm wrapped packages of strange powders and potions and odd little tools;) I've booked a bag in for the return trip this time.

I'm going on the Saturday, if you've never been to the NEC its connected to the airport so couldn't be handier. Leave some bargains for the rest of us Spadina:)

littleredspot · 07-10-2010 12:48pm

guym wrote: »

I've been making cakes for friends and family for a few years now would love to do it for a living but don't think it's feasible. Let me know what you think of the cakes, theres plenty more to see!!!

Your cakes are certainly of a very good professional standard, do they take you long? I'm also very impressed by the photography, any tips?

If you're looking for suggestions I would say cover the boards in sugarpaste, it adds a lot to the look imho

Jesus Wept · 07-10-2010 9:33pm

I love cake

guym · 07-10-2010 11:14pm

Thanks for the comments. You are right about covering the boards, it definately makes the cakes look better, I've started doing that with some of my more recent cakes. They do take me a fair amount of time to do. As for the photography I just use a basic digital camera but sit the cakes on a large dark piece of cloth so the background is dark, it makes the cakes stand out more.

littleredspot wrote: »

Your cakes are certainly of a very good professional standard, do they take you long? I'm also very impressed by the photography, any tips?

If you're looking for suggestions I would say cover the boards in sugarpaste, it adds a lot to the look imho

showgirlrita · 18-10-2010 9:53am

Cake I made for my niece's 4th Bday at the weekend.

D1976 · 18-10-2010 10:08am

Legendary

D1976 · 18-10-2010 1:45pm

Rainbow Cake

from www.notquitenigella.com

tootired · 18-10-2010 8:53pm

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Sigma Force · 28-10-2010 8:49pm

Cupcakes.
Not very good at piping or decorating but the italian meringue butter cream turned out perfect it's just my dodgy piping that lets it down. Plopped some halloween jellies on top.
Was going to go with a dark green colour but went with light so it wouldn't be too gross to eat. Very buttery though not my cup of tea but if you like butter you'd like the butter cream, seems even butterier than regular butter cream, mind you there is 500g of butter in the recipe.

Argh photo wouldn't work will try and upload it shortly.

Love that rainbow cake!

guym · 30-10-2010 1:00pm

My spongebob cake

Sigma Force · 07-11-2010 7:43pm

Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake.

guym · 07-11-2010 10:39pm

Nigella rocks.......nice looking cake Sigma!

Sigma Force wrote: »

Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake.

guym · 12-11-2010 10:50am

This is a wedding cake I finished this morning for a friend who's a painter & decorator, I'm pretty pleased with it, something a little different.:):)

barleybooley · 12-11-2010 4:31pm

Made this for a big Apple head

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I like cake!

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