Posts by katefarquharson

I am looking for a nice basic, but tasty vanilla sheetcake recipe.  I need to feed 50 people, (with fairly generous servings!) and I would definitely do a double layer. I can't use a doctored/extended box mix because I haven't...

I am new to sheet cakes. shock horror!    Here is my situation: I am making a board game cake to serve 50 people. the decorating is fine, JUST the baking for me is an issue.  I have quite a small oven. The tray...

Hi maggie,What is your method? do you whip the meriwhite with the water first? then add the sugar? or do you mix the meriwhite with the sugar until combined and then beat in the water? do you have a rough idea of how much icing sugar you...

I'm making a dummy cake to go on my market stall this weekend, I've hand painted the middle tier with big peonies but now i'm stuck! I need a border for each tier because the edges aren't neat at all. I have some lace edging stuff that i...

So I've made royal icing a fair few times before, but more last year and my memory is bad.I am now staying in south africa, so at the baking supply store i got some meringue powder called actiwhite. I used the following recipe:2 lbs...

Thank you so much!!I am rethinking completely. I am going to get some different racks for my oven (because i only have weird roasting-pan-like things and one normal wire rack). which is obviously part of the problem!I'm sticking with 3...

Next Sunday I'm doing my first market stall. I'm planning to make 150 cupcakes and about 50 cookies.Today I've baked 30 cookies, which turned out okay...I made a big batch of royal icing. it flopped. I'm using actiwhite, (im in south...

I'm also in Cape town!I'm going to try a madeira cake by Lindy Smith:http://www.lindyscakes.co.uk/2009/12/17/baking-the-perfect-madeira-cake/It looks quite promising judging by the reviews etc.When cooking a cake slower, how much do you...

I guess I'll just have to go and get some layer pans then, it's just at the bakery where I work (doing the figure modelling not the baking!) they bake in deep pans. But i can do some experiments at some point

So I made a mud cake on saturday, didnt come out so great but after i cut the top off and the sides it was actually quite a nice cake. but I don't really need to worry about the mud cake at the moment.So today I thought i would try a...