A Thread For All Uk Bakers!!
Decorating By hailinguk Updated 25 Aug 2017 , 10:29am by Magic Mouthfuls
AI just had a look on google and they are like cylinders aren't they? So you can use a ball of paste and make a cylinder or like the tear drop with bottom flat....I'll post a picture to show what I' m talking about...:lol:
AHere are the pictures...[IMG ALT=""]http://cakecentral.com/content/type/61/id/3216895/width/350/height/700[/IMG] [IMG ALT=""]http://cakecentral.com/content/type/61/id/3216896/width/350/height/700[/IMG]
AOr you can get the picture on an edible image? And stick it on the other side?
AMmm, looks do able I guess, thanks Bashini.
AI know you can do it Barbara. But make sure you charge a reasonable price if you are going to make them. :)
AOK does. One more thing, would you make it out of petal or molding fondant or just ordinary sugarpaste?
I'm working on a cake for my class tomorrow night, its little Easter cake, for me and John, choc cake with hommade caramel sauce ( gorgeous) I've made some bunnies, carrots, toadstools, and a fence, abit weird but thats what we had to make.
I know this sounds bit bad and I dont mean to be nasty but my things I make are better then the tutors, neater and generally nicer, is that awful of me?
AI would make them with 50/50 flower paste and sugar paste.:-)
Barbara, not at all... You have to be proud of your self!!! Out of curiosity, why did you start going for classes Barbara? I am just asking because your cakes are so beautiful and very neat...:D
AJust thought I'd look in before I go to bed. Nanny the rugby shirt/power station cake sounds like a nightmare! I wouldn't even attempt it! I get the significance but why does your customer even think that will look nice on a cake? However good a job it is (and I'm sure you'll do it really well), they don't exactly go together do they? And no it's not awful to say that about your tutors cakes, you've got eyes, you're not stupid, if they're better, they're better! I bet your tutor knows it an all!
ABashini, I started going to classes about 28 yrs ago, I worked in the school kitchen for an hr aday when my kids were young, I couldn't afford to buy cakes so I thought I'd make my own, I learnt lot but my tutor was very old school and was taught how to royal ice mainly.
Then I got promoted to school cook and spent 3 yrs getting my city& guilds 706 1/2, I gave it up when I went to Specsavers,then 2 yrs ago my daughter in law asked me to make my grandsons cake, and the rest is history, but tbh I was asked to make a few things didn't know how to do so thats why I enrolled in class, I didn't know how to wire a spray good enough, thankfully I do now.
The class is split between beginners and 3 of us that have made a few cakes, so when she shows us something it can be very basic, but I enjoy going and its only 2 hrs on a Monday night. Thank you Bashini that really does mean so much to me to hear you say that.
Maisie, her dad is 60th next week and he works for Tata, she is my work colleague and I made her wedding cake last yr the one with your lovely hydrangea cutter Flowers.
AHmm, Tata? Steelworks? Anyway, doesn't matter, if you know exactly where he works is there something specific to that place you could pick out and use? The llanwern cooling tower if it was llanwern for example? I'm off to bed now, night all. :-)
AWow!!! Barbara, that's amazing!!! You are lucky to have done so many courses.... Especially the royal icing one!!! I am scared of Royal icing!!! :lol:
AMe too I was never very good at it to be honest, beside its much harder to cover up mistakes too. Everything was piped around the edges etc, I learnt how to make chocolate eggs, filigree type very pretty, marzipan fruits etc. Its very different these though, thankfully.
Night all
AOh Nannycook it sounds like my classes! I only learnt royal icing when I started too - my second lot of classes a year later were with someone else and I learnt fondant and flowers. Recently I was looking for a refresher but I don't know what to look for. Perhaps I'll just have to practice instead. Bashini is right about your cakes though. Kathy
AThank you Kathy, yours are pretty good too!.
I dont remember there being the tools available back when I first went in the eighties, groans at giving my age away!!, or just maybe there was but I couldn't afford them. If you made flowers they were made with just your fingers and nowt else, royal icing was made with merriwhite which I still use today actually. Ha, the good old days eh?
ANannycook Royal Icing is making a big come back at the moment so those skills can still come in useful :D
I really enjoyed royal icing. The next part of my course is doing large run outs and collars. They are personally not to my taste but I am excited to learn how to do them. They can look very pretty.
I did my first assessment in royal icing. This is the cake I made.
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It took a lot of practicing though.
I love the nursery cake. The simplest cakes are the hardest to do as there is nothing to hide behind. I wouldn't of noticed the banner off the bat though had you of not pointed it out.
I will be spending to day trying to overwork and over bake a madeira cake (not something I ever thought I would say lol) I need to it be really dense and tough for my next assessment. (its not tasted) It needs to be 3 cubic centimetres and stand up to being marzipaned and ganached or covered in hot fondant. Im not worried...honest lol
ASiany, that is really lovely, gorgeous all in white, love your trees, how were they made? Yes I guess I dont mind royal icing as long its younger version on an 80's take, just hate all the scrolls and over piping thats traditional with royal icing.
I guess with todays cakes you can incorporate abit of both, thankfully. Got a little Easter to finish off for class tonight, I made myself another bunny as the one the tutor showed me was hideous, good listen to me I sound a right PITA dont I?
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Siany, that is really lovely, gorgeous all in white, love your trees, how were they made? Yes I guess I dont mind royal icing as long its younger version on an 80's take, just hate all the scrolls and over piping thats traditional with royal icing.
I guess with todays cakes you can incorporate abit of both, thankfully. Got a little Easter to finish off for class tonight, I made myself another bunny as the one the tutor showed me was hideous, good listen to me I sound a right PITA dont I?
The trees are royal iced. I used an icecream cone in the centre (You can use modelling paste or pastillage but I wanted it to be edible) and then just piped royal icing with a leaf tip. To get the height I did a row on each and then left it to dry and did the next. It took a full 2 days to finish them and a very very sore hand from rolling the cone in my fingers. There is a great page on FB called Bella's Baking. She does a lot of royal iced work that is very modern. I love her cakes.
I'm lucky that my tutor is very good. I'm paying a lot of money to go to college to learn this so I would not be happy if she wasn't, though she is the first to admit modelling isn't her strong point but everything else is lol.
I need to make a mad hatters hat and a Cheshire cat over the next couple of weeks so that's going to be fun.
ASiany, that beautiful!!! My hats off to all the people who does royal icing!!!:)
I buy the ready to you use royal icing powder to do boarders, little scrolls, dots and to stick things!!! That is the only time I use royal icing!!! :grin:
AMorning all. :-) Siany that cake is beautiful! I'm in awe of you, I'm in awe of all of you, you're all so good. Maybe if I hang around with you long enough some of your talent will rub off on me!
AMaisie, you're already good, how many times do I keep telling you, no more now OK, YOU ARE GOOD!!! only trying to boost your confidence honest.
AMaisie you are good. I've seen your work. The only thing you lack is confidence!!
I love working with royal icing but I don't like the smell of if made with pure albumen, it makes it hard to pipe when you are gagging lol
I have to go make this cake but I can't wilfully make a bad cake. You watch, cosmos want this one to be dense it will be so light and fluffy only fairys can eat it. Haha
Nanny, would it be possible to make your cake a cooling tower which is wearing the rugby shirt? A bit out there, I know!
AArrrghhh, soooo, lizzie, I'not that good trust me! Good idea though.
AHaha! Thanks ladies, you're very kind. I'm learning loads on here and improving all the time, I just haven't got as much time as I'd like to practice. Can I tell you something I am chuffed about tho? Put my Skylanders cake on Pinterest and it's been repinned 6 times! Siany I couldn't help laughing about your light, fluffy cake cos that would happen in my world too! :-D
AI think you are that good nanny! Pot, kettle?!
Joining this thread because I'm based in Cheshire, make cakes for (barely) a living, and am CC mad.
I'm coming down from my cake high this weekend and am feeling blue because there are no orders at the moment and I'm dying to make another cake!
Hope you don't mind the intrusion, but all I wanted to say was:
HELLO!
AHi cakejeanie, welcome, I know you from FB dont I?
Thank you Kathy, yours are pretty good too!.
I dont remember there being the tools available back when I first went in the eighties, groans at giving my age away!!, or just maybe there was but I couldn't afford them. If you made flowers they were made with just your fingers and nowt else, royal icing was made with merriwhite which I still use today actually. Ha, the good old days eh?
Haha! For sure - I just bought a new Kenwood because that was the only "mechanical" intervention I could use when making royal icing (20 minutes beating - sheeesh!). I also just got my new pot of Merriwhite from Amazon ;). I started my first class in 1980 - I actually went to go to dressmaking classes but they were full. "How about cake decorating?" they said. I told them I couldn't bake cakes which was totally true. I actually couldn't even cook having only been married a few months either. They assured me that I didn't have to bake. Pants on fire! Imagine my horror when my first project was a sponge cake with a runny icing over the top. As newlyweds I had been given somebody's old cooker (we were skint) and it was only then that I discovered that the oven had a slant to it. My first sponge had a flick up at the end! Rather like Aladdin's shoes! Lol. I think all my tools were contained in a small fishing tacke box and I thought I was the bees knees when I got a carnation cutter!
Siany - beautiful cake - that gives me hope!!! I might be in my comfort zone again! Lol.
Cakejeanie - welcome! I'm new too really. Only been on since beginning of March. I forced my way in.....they are all lovely and welcoming. 
AHa ha kathy you so make me laugh.
Ladies if you ever want to be in awe of someone, please check out, Emma Jayne's cake Design she's based in Aberdare, S.Wales, OMG, she is an artist, and on a different level to me but cant help feeling depressed when I have a gander at her cakes, awesome!!!
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