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I like cake!

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  • #392
    Pigwidgeon
    Registered Users Posts: 6,590 ✭✭✭Pigwidgeon


    I made these last week for a friend's birthday, chocolate cupcakes with a caramel centre :)

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  • #393
    Sigma Force
    Registered Users Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Sigma Force


    Yum they look good!


  • #394
    Pigwidgeon
    Registered Users Posts: 6,590 ✭✭✭Pigwidgeon


    Bump, a few bits that I've made in college over the last while.

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  • #395
    Mickey Lover
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭Mickey Lover


    Hi I have just found this thread and I have to say fantastic work by all. I love looking at the pics and getting ideas, it's great to meet other like minded people.
    Am going to try to attach a pic of my first attempt at icing a cake for my daughter 3rd birthday - was quite chuffed - not bad for a beginner - will have to figure out how to reduce the size of MB in the photo first :confused:


  • #396
    Mickey Lover
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭Mickey Lover


    Well figured it out I think - here goes ....


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  • #397
    Sigma Force
    Registered Users Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Sigma Force


    They all look so delish Pigwidgeon! nom nom nom *drools. We need a drool button for this forum.

    @Mickey Lover ..that's really good and if that's you're first go can't wait to see what you come up with next!


  • #398
    Mickey Lover
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭Mickey Lover


    Thanks Sigma Force I was chuffed with myself :D I have an Elmo Cake pan and cupcake holders ordered from Wilton so can't wait to get started on him !

    Definitely second the drool button !


  • #399
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Made chocolate biscuit cake yesterday - verrrry tasty! A good bit less butter next time though.


  • #400
    TonyW72
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭TonyW72


    damn, now i want some cake too.


  • #401
    hootietootie
    Registered Users Posts: 355 ✭✭hootietootie


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    Made for the hubbies 8th Birthday yesterday


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  • #402
    Sigma Force
    Registered Users Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Sigma Force


    Love the rainbow cake, but isn't hubby a bit young to be a hubby lol was the rainbow cake hard to make? Does the colouring effect the flavour it does look yum.


  • #403
    hootietootie
    Registered Users Posts: 355 ✭✭hootietootie


    Sigma Force wrote: »
    Love the rainbow cake, but isn't hubby a bit young to be a hubby lol was the rainbow cake hard to make? Does the colouring effect the flavour it does look yum.

    It was his birthday yesterday, so he's really 32. Wasn't hard to make at all, just took a bit of time. Colour didn't effect flavour at all, I used Vanilla bean paste and coloured paste though, I'd say liquid food colouring would make a difference


  • #404
    DreamC
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭DreamC


    Some of my recent works

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  • #405
    Sigma Force
    Registered Users Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Sigma Force


    Omg Dream C that is brill, it's so realistic, the bottle.


  • #406
    Sigma Force
    Registered Users Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Sigma Force


    ..well it's a cake of sorts a cheesecake inspired and slightly changed from a Jaime Oliver recipe.

    Base is ginger nut biccys with crushed roasted hazelnuts.
    Next layer is lemon curd (I cheated but you can always make your own or buy a good quality one).
    Strawberries next (Jaime used raspberries which prob would of been nicer but hard to get nice fresh ones atm).
    Then I topped it with Mascapone cream with a dash of milk and spoon of icing sugar mixed in but I also added a tablespoon of Baileys Biscotti flavour, then grated choc on top.

    If you haven't tried Baileys Biscotti yet do! It's so delish! Although I guess Baileys Hazelnut would be nice to go with the hazelnut base. Ginger and lemon are such a nummy combo and it really did taste like a really good quality proper cheesecake, even nicer with Mascarpone than with cream cheese (don't like cream cheese myself).


  • #407
    DreamC
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭DreamC


    Yesterday's birthday cake.

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  • #408
    Mickey Lover
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭Mickey Lover


    Sigma Force that looks like something I'd love to be eating right now :)

    Dream C - that is fantastic, you are very talented at what you do well done


  • #409
    Pigwidgeon
    Registered Users Posts: 6,590 ✭✭✭Pigwidgeon


    A few more bits I've done lately. Starting to get the knack of this whole icing lark. Next step will be attempting to ice a cake with fondant when I get a chance.

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  • #410
    toadfly
    Registered Users Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭toadfly


    Some cakes I have done over the last few months..

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  • #411
    Acoshla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Acoshla


    Nice penguin cake TillyGirl.


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  • #412
    DreamC
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭DreamC


    Nice and neat cakes, TillyGirl.


  • #413
    DreamC
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭DreamC


    Some more flowers. This is my student's work. We spent Sunday making this spray. She was delighted with the result. And I am very proud of her.

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  • #414
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Can't see the pic and I do really love chocolate mud cake :(


  • #415
    hairyprincess
    Registered Users Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    emeraldstar wrote: »
    Can't see the pic and I do really love chocolate mud cake :(

    aaarrrgggghhhh, the picture won't upload for me :mad:


  • #416
    Twee.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,715 Mod ✭✭✭✭Twee.


    Cupcakes in the deep Ikea tin. Really loving it, something about the shape makes them taste better :p

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    Crap picture and filter, but these were cupcake sized bakewells - pastry bottom, raspberry jam and topped with madeira.

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    And finally, not my creation! Got these at the Electric Picnic launch, they were divine! They were lemon or red velvet cake inside.

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  • #417
    Sigma Force
    Registered Users Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Sigma Force


    Those cake pops are so cute! I don't have any luck in baking cupcakes unless I use my shallow grey coloured tin with Dr Oetker plain white bun cases, anytime I try and bake cupcakes in another tin or with other paper cases they just turn out mush..dunno why.


  • #418
    Twee.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,715 Mod ✭✭✭✭Twee.


    Sigma Force wrote: »
    Those cake pops are so cute! I don't have any luck in baking cupcakes unless I use my shallow grey coloured tin with Dr Oetker plain white bun cases, anytime I try and bake cupcakes in another tin or with other paper cases they just turn out mush..dunno why.

    Hmm that is strange!


  • #419
    Pigwidgeon
    Registered Users Posts: 6,590 ✭✭✭Pigwidgeon


    I have those ikea cupcake cases too, don't have the tin though, I manage to make them fit into my normal muffin tin! They sometimes end up a bit lobsided like this, but with a bit of fiddling they can look grand.

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    I had a bit of a disaster yesterday. I was experimenting with peppermint and pecan brownies, but took them out of the oven way too early and didn't realise until I had cooled and cooked them. Then I decided to put them back in the oven on a normal baking tray, and they kind of melted a bit. Ended up looking like this

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    They tasted pretty good. I think I'm going to tweak the recipe a bit more, use a darker chocolate, no nuts and just the mint to make them like after 8 brownies.

    I've two weeks off college and not a huge amount of work at the moment so I'm going to try playing around with stuff. Considering my first attempt at covering a cake with fondant. Anyone have any tips on doing it? Or any must have tools that I should get to start me off? I'm not looking to do anything fancy at the moment, just want to give it a shot.


  • #420
    Twee.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,715 Mod ✭✭✭✭Twee.


    I wish they had more patterns! No one else seems to be making the conical shaped cases for the tin. I don't think a regular one would be tall enough for the tin if I smushed one in.


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  • #421
    Acoshla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Acoshla


    Pidgwigeon buy a smoother anyway for definite, and make sure you have a good rolling pin for the sugarpaste. Watch some youtube tutorials on how to do it, that's how I learned, watched one and off I went. Don't roll it too thin.


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