AYou're welcome! I treated myself to the whole set last week ... Is it sad that I got so excited at having all the colours haha

AI 'think' it's 1 but don't quote me on that! Lol. I'm still newish to the recipe measurements in regards to the tins I'm afraid, but someone hopefully will answer this for us!! Lol xx

No problem.  Good Luck!  

So, I had a cupcake disaster weekend!

I have orders totaling 6 dozen red velvet cupcakes for Valentines Day and the first 2 batches I made on Sunday, the colour was a horrible 'purple' and the mixture was very runny.  When the cakes came out the oven, they were brown instead of a lovely bright red. I had baked a trial 2 doz the week before and they were perfect!  I switched from plain flour to self raising, and that seemed to make all the difference.  Has this happened to anyone else?

Hi there, I have tried making redvelvet cake/cupcakes a few times and used many recipes. Then one of the members posted this recipe on BSG forum and the cake was absolutely lovely.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/louisamorriscakes/3778933607/

I made few cupcakes from the left over batter. HTH. 

Iwrote down sush`s cake recipe,I think i wrote it down wrong,I have been trying ti track it but cannot anyone got it please thank you.

' I'm a bit scared about posting cupcakes via the Royal Mail all over the country but fingers crossed!'

Hi :) 

I did my first posting of cupcakes last week via RM and they got there exactly how they left my kitchen.  My advice is buy the postal pods (Ebay or www.cardcuts.co.uk).  Plenty of bubble-wrap and they were off by 1st class ... was a bit of a scary waiting game, but I got news back from the customer and she said everything was safe and sound, pheww !  Maybe you could try a trial run just to be reassured ? Good luck :D xx
 

AAny one in the UK bakers got sushis cake reciepo THank you.

Sorry flowergirl1, I don't have that. 

Does anybody use "Deco-Relief Cocoa Butter"? It looks like its the right consistency for hand painting but I can't find any info on whether it 'sets' or dries or how user friendly it is....... just trying to work out if its worth the expense!

A

I've not tried that one.

See in the picture they've used it to spray a chocolate egg with it

http://www.homechocolatefactory.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=CH447&Category_Code=COCOA

To do that you have to freeze the chocolate and then spray (with an airbrush type set up but for chocolate) it. That makes me think its liquid until it is cooled or frozen. And as it is in a bottle I would say it is in liquid state at room temperature so probably wouldn't set at rooters if painted with.

What I use it block form cocoa butter and powdered colours. Melt the cocoa butter and then when it's liquid mix in your powder colours. It's sets at room temp as that's what form it comes in originally :)

AThats what i do too at the mo! I add a few drops of oil too so you get a little longer with it on your paintbrush before it sets :-)

I was just looking at alternatives to sitting an array of jam jars in a warm waterbath lol i think i'll just stick with it tho, i wouldnt want to smudge my painting during stacking!!

ATHanks Bashini.

Hi fellow Brits, I'm an expat living in the US and I wondered if any of you have tried the PME natural food color? A lot of the colors here contain ingredients that are banned in the rest of the world and I think I've found a supplier for the PME, but wanted to check how good they are before buying. Thanks! 

Hi there, I haven't tried PME. I use sugar flair paste colours. Is there any place you can find those?

The PME ones caught my eye because they're all natural, are the Sugarflair ones all natural too? 

I don't think they are. But here is the link that I was checking on,

http://www.cakescookiesandcraftsshop.co.uk/sugarflair-food-colourings

Hello Folks, I was wondering if you guys have any idea where I could buy edible icing sheets. The ones that come in different patterns. I believe there are designer patterns as well such as the LV and Gucci ones. I’ve searched through Google, but I can’t seem to find any Website in the UK to order from.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi, is it the chocolate transfer sheets?

Hi Hailinguk

Could you tell me which nozzle you used to pipe your cakes?  I'm quite new to cupcake making and cake decorating so I'm going to be asking may questions over time (as well as reading my new books!)

Thanks

Lauren 

AHello all,

I'm new on here, hope your all okay.

I have been reading Peggy Porchens books and I would like to know where you can buy liquid fondant OR how to make it yourself? Thank you for your help all! X

Hi everyone, I have a rainbow wedding cake to do, where the bride wants about 6 different colours in the cake in stripes.  Now that bit is no problem, but I'm not sure about the colouring.     I make my cakes from scratch and with butter, so my batter is always a pale yellow colour before baking.  Now if I add say red to that its gonna turn an orangy shade and if I add blue surely  that will turn more of a greeny shade?!      Any advice on this please ladies (and gents)! on how to achieve bright colours that I want to achieve.     Any advice appreciated     Jan 

AHi Jan, if you register on the BSG forum, one of the members has posted a step by step on making the rainbow cake. It will answer all your questions.

Lauren, I use 1M tip to pipe my cupcakes.

thanks Bashini, will go and have a look x