Help Please

[rachaelmae]

I want to make a pingu cake for Jessimaes birthday. Katieharry has a fantastic one on her FB.

I have never baked a cake in my life....

How the feck do i do it? and what do i need?

Ideally the cake would be chocolate.....



PLEASE HELP ME!! my friends are laughing at the very idea.......

[daisy duke]

Emma would be a good one to ask, she is a bit of a cake expert makes lots for friends and family. For a first attempt i would just make a basic chocolate sponge and fill with either buttercream or choc buttercream, and then use a cake topper like this
Pingu 7.5" Rice Paper Birthday Cake Topper! on eBay (end time 10-Aug-10 23:44:45 BST)

If your feeling brave you could maybe make a small pingu to go on the cake board, depends how creative and arty you are? I love making cakes, but im rubbish when it comes to making charachters!

This is a good basic recipe for the sponge, but you will need to add cocoa powder to make it a chocolate sponge!

Victoria sponge cake recipe: Recipes: Good Food Channel

Hope that helps a bit, good luck!!

[emmaandnoah]

hi hun, depends how adventurous your feeling my local cake dec shop has different shaped tins they hire out. £2 a night i think they are. anyway, could do 1 of those in the shape of a penguin and cover it in icing. or do a normal cake (square or round) and make little penguins on the top. my basic sponge recipe i use is...
8" round cake tin...

8 oz self raising flour
8 oz marg/butter ..whichever you prefer but use full fat coz diet marg is crap for baking, your cake wont rise very well
8 oz caster sugar
4 eggs
drop of milk.
1 tsp vanilla extract for vanilla cake
1/2 oz cocoa powder if you want choc cake, add a little extra milk too.
pinch salt.

in a jug, beat eggs with milk.
beat butter & marg till they go pale and fluffy.
add in abit of egg mix and bit of flour alternating till all mixed in. dont over mix or sponge with be heavy. pour into lined tin. bake for about 40 mins ish, depending on oven, 180c

butter cream...
3oz butter/marg
9oz icing sugar
ddop of milk to make it nice and spreadable. add 1oz cocoa powder for choc butttercream, or 1/2 tsp of vanilla

if using a bigger tin, increase mixture
ie...... 10oz, 10oz, 10oz 5 eggs
for a 10inch square cake i use 12 12 12 6

but if your carving your cake you'll need a firmer mediera sponge mix...let me know coz i dont remember all that off my head

Hope that helps
add me on facebook if you want
emma parker, same goes for any other ladies too

[rachaelmae]

Thats fab, thanks Emma!

Will add you on FB so you can laugh at my cake disaster

[Claire76]

Cannot wait to see it

[daisy duke]

With a bit of practice i think it will be great, i was impressed with Dino!

[rachaelmae]

Whats the best way to keep iced figures once you've made them?

[rachaelmae]

And whens best to make the cake/fairy cakes? the day before?

[isabellasmum]

Originally Posted by rachaelmae

Whats the best way to keep iced figures once you've made them?

In a cardboard box. Plastic/tupperware can suck moisture out of them and make them droop. I told my mum this but she still put all the flowers we made in a tub and they all sagged

Sponge cakes you can bake day before no probs, or better still bake week before, freeze them then take them out the morning of the party and ice them straight from freezer.

[rachaelmae]

Originally Posted by isabellasmum

In a cardboard box. Plastic/tupperware can suck moisture out of them and make them droop. I told my mum this but she still put all the flowers we made in a tub and they all sagged

Sponge cakes you can bake day before no probs, or better still bake week before, freeze them then take them out the morning of the party and ice them straight from freezer.

Ok thanks for that, shall remove from tupperware box LOLxx