Home-made cakes thread 2

A question about : Home-made cakes thread 2

This is a continuation of this thread as that one was nearly 2,000 posts long.

Who's going to post the first cake?

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• I love that cake! How did you make the food?
• Thanks for reminding me how to upload the photos!
  Everything is made from fondant icing.
• This was yesterday's cake, a bit smaller this time!
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• Thanks for doing the new thread annie!
  Can anyone suggest how best to make a cake that is sort of plant pot shaped? I'm hoping to make a special cake for when one of our machines at work closes and one of the main parts is like a big plant pot!!
• AnnieH- they are lovely, do you just use cookie cutters to get the shapes
• Thank you! Yes I've got some mini cutters, that are perfect for moulding.
• Oh my gosh it feels funny posting here on our new thread.
  WELL DONE ANNIE your cake pops always look lovley are they sweeties in the middle?
  HannahIOW you cake topper looks fab I really like the butterflies made of the wire how did you do them they look so delicate.
  I am planning my next cake for my dd for her 15th sort of know what I want to do but want to have a go at people figures bur dont know where to start. (if anyone has any tips they will be appreciated)
  Well done everyone keep up the good work and happy cakeing
• Thank you!
  Yes, they're Skittles in the middle (with the S on the other side)
• Looking for a bit of advise regarding stand alone mixer. Don't want to spend crazy money on one as I only make cakes for fun. Don't sell them and don't want to start so feel I cant really justify selling Ј400 on a mixer. I had looked at the Kenwood Prospero but been offered a Kenwood Kmix Mixer in almond for Ј150. (it is still new and unopened with all internal packaging. Was an unwanted gift). I have never really bought anything second hand before (although un-used). What do you think? Has anyone any experiance of either.
  Thanks
• I have a K-Mix. My advice? Snatch their hand off! It's brill!
• AnnieH, can you tell me if there's any difference except in looks between a Kenwood Chef mixer and a K-Mix? My old hand mixer is really struggling these days and I want to buy a stand mixer to replace it.
  Amazon have a White Chef Classic with an 800 watt motor for Ј168 whereas the https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kenwood-KMX5...9458897&sr=1-2 is Ј230 and its motor is only 500 watt.
  I realise the K-Mix is a much more attractive machine but I'm not sure if it's worth the extra money.
  Grateful for any views.
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• I've been meaning to share some of my cakes with you ladies. They are nowhere near as professional as some of yours but I enjoy making them for family and friends.
  This is the wedding cake I mentioned earlier this week that I made for my brother from the BBC Good Food recipe.
  Another brother went off to the States at Easter so I made him this suitcase cake.
  It was my sister's birthday last weekend and I made her a cupcake tower with a cupcake for every year she has lived.
  A handbag cake for a friend's 40th birthday. I find writing with icing a nightmare so I have bought some tappits letters. Need to find an excuse to try them out.
• Well I got my Kmix today...decided to get a black one, goes better with my other kitchen appliances...cannot wait to try it out. Could of got it for Ј220 if I'd taken out an Amazon credit card...but ended up paying Ј239 with express delivery included as wanted it quickly... it's grandsons birthday, and have cupcakes and cone cupcakes do to for Sunday and then cupcakes to do Sunday for cake stall at school sports day Monday. Really could of done with a practise run with it first to get used to it but no time.
• I had to adjust the beater on my Kmix as it didn't get to the bottom of the bowl. Shame you don't have time to play with it first, as it'd give time to iron these things out. I love mine. I've made sugarpaste from scratch in it, and it's half the price of shop bought