Novelty cakes

happyhighlandcoo · Post by **happyhighlandcoo** » Wed May 20, 2020 7:56 pm

That's excellent piping and has a good bit of Wimpy Kid style about it.

Indeed, Smalex. Certainly not what you'd have expected to make!

purple_dress · Post by **purple_dress** » Tue Jun 23, 2020 3:52 pm

Please can someone recommend a good chocolate cake for decorating? The one that I make tends to sink a lot, which is fine but I'm looking to make a taller cake this year. Thanks!

purple_dress · Post by **purple_dress** » Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:04 pm

Pokemon Sun and Moon cake for J's 8th birthday! (next year, remind me I HATE fondant)

Texaco Shirley · Post by **Texaco Shirley** » Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:09 pm

purple_dress wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2020 3:52 pm Please can someone recommend a good chocolate cake for decorating? The one that I make tends to sink a lot, which is fine but I'm looking to make a taller cake this year. Thanks!

I’ve only just seen this but I find this recipe works well https://charlotteslivelykitchen.com/cho ... hday-cake/

ETA and that’s a great cake.

purple_dress · Post by **purple_dress** » Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:17 pm

That's the recipe I used!

Texaco Shirley · Post by **Texaco Shirley** » Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:31 pm

purple_dress · Post by **purple_dress** » Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:33 pm

It worked really well. The cakes were all flat and easy to layer. Much better than the other recipe I was using and really chocolatey!

happyhighlandcoo · Post by **happyhighlandcoo** » Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:34 pm

Oh! That chocolate cake looks perfect, so dense and moist. Your icing skills are amazing. Did you cut all of those complicated shapes freehand or did you have a template?

purple_dress · Post by **purple_dress** » Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:37 pm

Thanks! I made my own templates for the fondant shapes and pokeballs and the crystals were done in a silicon mould using candy melts.

And the pokeballs are covering where there were imperfections.

Ella77 · Post by **Ella77** » Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:42 pm

That is so good!

AshleyX · Post by **AshleyX** » Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:58 pm

That’s fantastic! So neat. And I could just go a piece just now, I’ve been craving home-made cake. Shop-bought just doesn’t cut it.

Jet · Post by **Jet** » Mon Jul 20, 2020 4:16 pm

That looks brilliant!

I have a rather complex Minecraft brief from S (someone in netherite armor missing a chest plate burning in lava while the chest plate is in the furnace but not quite ready yet)

Not ideal that we are away until the day before when I need to make the cake - I don’t know where to start. I did preempt the request and have some Minecraft animal toys that could be on top as well.

I guess I could do uniced chocolate cake with green buttercream on top to be a grass block? Then make the rest out of fondant? I hate fondant so avoiding icing the whole thing in it would be preferable.

olive · Post by **olive** » Fri Aug 07, 2020 2:18 pm

M’s only brief was a nod to Marvel and I briefly looked at making fondant figures and then remembered I can’t decorate for shit.

I bought the little sugar decorations but M was delighted with the inside.

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Unfortunately I didn’t think ahead and let M blow out the candles so we couldn’t share the cake with neighbours so I now have 3/4 of a cake in the fridge. I also made 3 sponges and halved them so I also have full 3 layers in the freezer.

Princess Morripov · Post by **Princess Morripov** » Fri Aug 14, 2020 7:07 am

Those layers look fab!

Well we had a request for a shark monster truck birthday cake in May and it’s been mentioned relentlessly since then and trying to do this on the hottest and muggiest days of the year has been sheer hell.

It’s sank quite a bit and I’ve covered up most of the atrocities with crushed biscuits and flake. It’s got green and blue layers in and there’s enough cake there for millions of people and only my mum and dad are coming round

Anyway, fuck doing that myself again

purple_dress · Post by **purple_dress** » Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:01 am

It looks great, Pov! I love the tyre track effect. Cake decorating in hot weather is both tough and exhausting. I always feel dissatisfied when I first finish and can only see the flaws but trust me: it looks really good!

F'Artiste · Post by **F'Artiste** » Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:14 am

Pov, that looks excellent! Trust me, it’s a million miles better than the fondant covered monstrosity I currently have in the freezer for V’s birthday.

Kleio · Post by **Kleio** » Thu Aug 20, 2020 1:03 pm

You can tell I did this in less than an hour

It’s the Pokemon Rock Ruff, at least it wasn’t a despot again like last year (he wanted Genghis Khan).

Little My · Post by **Little My** » Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:05 pm

This is a wonderful cake page! They're all great.

I have been informed there will be a Harry Potter theme for me to contend with in November.

olive · Post by **olive** » Fri Aug 21, 2020 3:20 am

That’s a brilliant cake, Pov!

That’s so cute, Kleio, I could have spent half a day on one like yours and it wouldn’t have looked as good!

Princess Morripov · Post by **Princess Morripov** » Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:27 am

So another birthday and another cake to make (absolutely not doing this next year

). Tupac requested we make Biggie a rainbow cake, so that is what he’s got. Unsurprisingly easier to ice and decorate when it’s not 9000 degrees and you are not having to juggle working full time and solo parenting, who knew?

I have to make another one for Saturday as he’s having a couple of pals round so that’ll either be an improvement or a sloppy mess because I’ve got bored second time round

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