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Hooray, there's a baking thread! Hopefully you don't mind if I share this rather derpy looking dinosaur cake that I made for my boyfriend's nephew's birthday. He was over the moon with it, apparently. I'm not 100% happy with how it turned out but I don't think it's bad for my first attempt at something like this...  Only the body is cake, the legs/head/neck/tail are solid fondant. I had thought there'd be enough cake left over from trimming the body to make legs etc, but there wasn't. The rocks and leaves for the nest are fondant too and the eggs are chocolate mini eggs. A surprisingly large amount of the time making it was spent on arguing about whether dinosaurs made nests and if so what the nests might look like...
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That truck is awesome. I made beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees:  Sadly the yellow food colouring turned out to taste kind of...odd, which spoilt my tasty caramel buttercream icing a bit. Apparently the colourant is lutein, which is a plant pigment and allegedly important for the health of your eyesight so even if the cakes do taste a little strange, they're now effectively a health food. Only one bee has a smile cos I felt the smile made them look far too derpy, though I have some icing left so I may put smiles on them later. I'm not sure I'm entirely pleased with how they turned out, they feel like they could be(e) better somehow. Hopefully the recipient will like them though! radioaktivitat fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Mar 21, 2012 |
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Mar 21, 2012 22:36
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Cpt.Wacky posted:Those are cute. A mix of smile, frowns and Os could work. I think what they're missing is wings. Is there something you could stick in at diagonals for wings? Maybe banana chips? Probably too thick. Big dried coconut flakes? Or just some white frosting teardrops for wings. I really need a decent piping bag/nozzle set if I'm going to attempt more things like the bee army; I've got a cheap plastic one but frankly it's rubbish. Any brands I should look out for/specific sets anyone could recommend? I'm in the UK, if that makes a difference.
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Mar 22, 2012 08:25
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Now with wings and added derp: Teardrop shapes proved a bit tricky to cut out consistently so in the end I used a piping nozzle as a round cutter and then just cut the icing circles in half. The wings are definitely an improvement, I think.
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Mar 23, 2012 10:05
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PezMaster posted:
I've found that for most bread/yeast cake recipes I've tried it seems best to ignore the recommended time for the first rise and just leave it until it seems like it's done rising - you definitely want the dough to at least double in size, and I've found this often seems to take a couple of hours at least. 30 minutes seems about right for the second rise, though.
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Jun 9, 2013 21:41
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The Great British Bakeoff started this week and the first round was CAKES. UK folks can catch it on the iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01db80r/The_Great_British_Bake_Off_Series_4_Cake/ and non-UK folks can see it on Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkRFt5Kq2NE. There are some epic disasters on the angel food cake technical challenge, and some fantastic cakes for the showstoppers. Given that all the contestants are amateurs who (generally) have a full time job, it's really impressive how high a standard some of them hit with their decoration skills. While I can turn out something tasty, it does tend to look a bit like it's been decorated by a toddler. Some of the recipes from the episode are here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/programmes/p01db80r - I had a go at the grapefruit sandwich one of the contestants made and it seems to have come out OK despite my grapefruit curd being a tad on the dense side. I will report back when it gets eaten tomorrow! The BBC Food site does have the recipes from every series and they tend to be pretty good.
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