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Baked anything tasty lately?
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I used gel I think, the Wilton icing colours https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/wilton-icing-colour-kit-8-pack/538054-1000
I just couldn't get the right shades so I'm not sure if I was using them wrong. I used the black, then when I couldn't get it black I added dark chocolate, ended up with some horrid colour and added blue.
I added blue to the red too when I could only get a pink colour.
I love your ghosts. Yours seam bigger then mine and I think that was a better approach, I'll do mine bigger next time!
I use the Sugarflair paste colours and always get good strong colours! They usually mix well too as long as you're careful to only add a little at a time until you get the right shade (once tried to make purple by mixing blue and red and ended up with a gross brown colour because I added too much of one colour at once)
I think the ghosts look good big or small, it's good to have a mix of sizes even
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Just to help shenshen feel better about her inadequacies :pac:
Chocolate orange muffins. I don't have a piping bag and tried to use a freezer bag which burst because the icing was made too thick. So I handed the boy a spoon and sprinkles and let him decorate.
Some questions for a muffin novice - flavour is great but they didn't rise as I would have liked and are a little bit too dense. I used this recipe and added in the grated zest of an orange and some squeezed juice to help make the chocolate paste. Are cupcakes and muffins different? Or was it the addition of the juice and zest?
Any tips on making nice frosting? It tasted lovely. It's 70g unsalted butter, 280g icing sugar and juice of a mandarin. It was too thick to pipe properly and the sprinkles don't stick to it. Decrease the sugar ratio? More liquid?
We made 12 last night. Have 4 put away for little fella to bring to his granny and this one left. We're not really a sweet tooth family so they went down well!
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Just to help shenshen feel better about her inadequacies :pac:
Chocolate orange muffins. I don't have a piping bag and tried to use a freezer bag which burst because the icing was made too thick. So I handed the boy a spoon and sprinkles and let him decorate.
Some questions for a muffin novice - flavour is great but they didn't rise as I would have liked and are a little bit too dense. I used this recipe and added in the grated zest of an orange and some squeezed juice to help make the chocolate paste. Are cupcakes and muffins different? Or was it the addition of the juice and zest?
Any tips on making nice frosting? It tasted lovely. It's 70g unsalted butter, 280g icing sugar and juice of a mandarin. It was too thick to pipe properly and the sprinkles don't stick to it. Decrease the sugar ratio? More liquid?
We made 12 last night. Have 4 put away for little fella to bring to his granny and this one left. We're not really a sweet tooth family so they went down well!
Not sure about why the sponge didn't rise so much, are those cupcake cases or muffin cases?
Re: the icing, that sounds like a lot of icing sugar to butter, normally the ratio is about 2:1, so I'd say reduce the sugar next time and see how you get on. You can loosen it with some milk either if gets too thick but I'd be careful about adding too much extra juice to do that as it could cause the icing to split.0 -
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If I had seen these at a hallowe'en party when I was a kid, I'd probably have fainted with joy and amazement.
(I'd be just as excited these days, I just hide it better
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Haha thanks... they were actually for the big kids in work
They're also very forgiving to decorate... nobody expects Frankensteins monster to be perfect I actually dropped my bowl of icing on top of them at one point O.o 0 -
Haha thanks... they were actually for the big kids in work
They're also very forgiving to decorate... nobody expects Frankensteins monster to be perfect I actually dropped my bowl of icing on top of them at one point O.o
Your colleagues are very lucky! And lol at the indestructible monster brownies - very Frankenstein's monster-y 0 -
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I recently treated myself to a new kenwood mixer ... I used it for the first time today and I made red velvet buns using the odlums recipe. They were yummy. I didn’t do the cream frosting, as I forgot to buy cream cheese . My 8yrar old daughter was adamant about they needed something so I mixed icing sugar with some dr otker fine dark cocoa powder that I used in buns and it was lovely I’m in lurve with my kenwood:) 0
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I made gluten free carrot cake muffins yesterday, my first time to bake with gluten free flour. They were surprisingly good, and even those of us who don't have to avoid gluten thoroughly enjoyed them 0 -
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Daughter asked if I could make profiteroles this evening. Hadn't made them in twenty years I'd say, used to help my mum make them a lot when I was small.
Forgot how much they puff up and made them a bit big!
No excuse not to bake lot more now. My mother in law gave me her 20 plus year old Kenwood Chef that she'd given up using. I was too slow nabbing my own mothers when she gave it away a few months ago and another brother called dibs on it first. Will have to get the mincer and food processor attachments.0 -
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Thank you for this thread and all the delicious pics.. It got me thinking... I am at a new time in my life as I have finally retired and finally settled and established in my ideal place to live.
Used to bake all the time; even earned a living when times were hard. And at least three three tier wedding cakes for friends... in 9 years on a North Sea island never once had shop bread. Had a Kenwood and all.... Baked for friends, won prizes at shows etc.
Started the same way when I came to Ireland,, but then came the market trading and the dire needs my family support overseas....
So now, as every day is like Sunday, maybe time to pick up the ..... rolling pin!
And a dear friend has offered to pay for a breadmaker....
A New Year ahead!
You are an inspiration!
Good luck Graces, I'm looking forward to seeing what you bake! 0 -
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ah taking photos is another thing altogether.... cannot sort how to transfer from my phone to here... but you never know0 -
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ah taking photos is another thing altogether.... cannot sort how to transfer from my phone to here... but you never know
If you are able to post to boards from your phone you can attach photos directly from your phone to the post, that's what I usually do! no need for photos anyway you can just describe how you get on! 0 -
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House full of little ones during the week, so we made 2 tire chocolate biscuit cake, they all took turns with icing ,:D so proud of themselves, chocolate everywhere! great fun for them, cleanup was another thing :rolleyes:
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