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Offline meganjane

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Re: Bimby Chocolate Cake
« Reply #150 on: July 13, 2010, 10:51:17 am »
Gorgeous birthday cakes everyone! It's been some time since I've had to make a decorated birthday cake!
I've missed this thread, so have just trawled through all 10 pages! I now have the cake in the oven. I made 1/2 as much again as I had a big slab tin.
Will let you know!
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Re: Bimby Chocolate Cake
« Reply #151 on: July 13, 2010, 12:32:41 pm »
Wonderful looking cake Carrie.We certainly have talented cake decoraters on the forum, keep up the good work everyone.
And I must try this cake.DH loves chocolate cake and I can then compare it to my chocolate fudge cake.
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Re: Bimby Chocolate Cake
« Reply #152 on: July 13, 2010, 10:06:29 pm »
Finally tried this cake today after a friend brought back from the U.S, as a present, the "cookie" cake tins that I saw that Maddy had used in previous post.Turned out great and what a delicious cake it is.Different from my chocolate fudge cake but very yummy.My DH had a huge slice and enjoyed every crumb.Wonderful recipe ILB, many thanks.
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Re: Bimby Chocolate Cake
« Reply #153 on: July 14, 2010, 08:45:53 am »
Cooking a half measure of this (only had 2 eggs) for DH's birthday cake.  Review later :D

Ok, so I made this cake, and it turned out well (I think).  Then I waited, and iced it with the icing recipe earlier in this thread.  Anyway, the icing slowly sunk into the cake, and when I served it, it was like a mud cake with no icing!!

What did I do wrong?  I am thinking icing too runny, or cake still too warm, perhaps?
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Re: Bimby Chocolate Cake
« Reply #154 on: July 14, 2010, 03:28:04 pm »
Caroline it sounds as though your cake was still warm when you spread the icing.You can always make a custard and make it into a dessert for the family.Just think of it this way, all great recipes are created by mistakes!!
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Re: Bimby Chocolate Cake
« Reply #155 on: July 14, 2010, 03:47:13 pm »
Mine rose too much in the middle, but, then again, it was a 6 egg mix! Will stick with the regular size next time. I cut it into three, iced one piece and froze the other two.

Loved the videos that someone linked in one of the eariler threads here - seriouscakes. Beautiful music too!
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Re: Bimby Chocolate Cake
« Reply #156 on: July 25, 2010, 09:51:47 am »
Made this again today but substituted apple sauce for some of the butter & sugar. I had 200gm of apple sauce so only put in 85gm of butter & 255gm sugar. The cake is lovely & moist & being devoured as I type. This is my favourite chocolate cake recipe - it never fails no matter what I do to it. Thanks again ILB  :-*
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Re: Bimby Chocolate Cake
« Reply #157 on: July 27, 2010, 03:14:17 am »
Good idea VHJ. That way we can say it's healthy and eat more. :-))
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Re: Bimby Chocolate Cake
« Reply #158 on: July 27, 2010, 09:21:20 am »
Quote from: cookie1 on July 27, 2010, 03:14:17 am
Good idea VHJ. That way we can say it's healthy and eat more. :-))
Love your thinking Cookie1  :D :D
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Re: Bimby Chocolate Cake
« Reply #159 on: August 01, 2010, 06:54:10 am »
I have made this cake 4 times now.  In the last batch I knocked 20g off the butter and added 30g of olive oil.  I found this helped keep the cake a little bit moister.
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Re: Bimby Chocolate Cake
« Reply #160 on: August 05, 2010, 11:47:58 am »
Good thinking Tassie Bugalugs  ;)
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Re: Bimby Chocolate Cake
« Reply #161 on: August 19, 2010, 04:42:01 pm »
Quote from: Nay-nay on July 06, 2010, 07:56:17 am
This is the BEST ever recipe for a slab cake! Will never order one again!! I covered it in mock cream from this recipe: http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=3468.0
And made the decoration consisting of their name and picture of a drum using this technique.
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DCV2DZDuv9XA&h=553f9wRITO6Kpw_44IouzAsyzVQ
YUM!!! Will have to hunt down a piccy!

wow nay nay thanks for these links i love the first technique..never seen that before.  will be trying it out over the next couple of weeks with my kids bdays ..thanks for passing it on  :)
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Re: Bimby Chocolate Cake
« Reply #162 on: September 04, 2010, 09:49:40 am »
Oh so glad you liked it too! I was amazed when I found it and it was so easy for some one like me who can't draw to save myself! Please post pictures.   ;)
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Re: Bimby Chocolate Cake
« Reply #163 on: September 04, 2010, 09:43:21 pm »
well had my DS 5th bday party today and made the bimby cake as the base in a large slab tin (rectangular not square) to make a football field cake as thats what he wanted and we have a tradition in our family that the kids always get to choose the cake they want (usually out of the WW birthday cake book) then mum has to make it!  So here is this years effort for my DS..DD is next week so alot of cake for us for the next couple of weeks!

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Re: Bimby Chocolate Cake
« Reply #164 on: September 05, 2010, 02:03:43 am »
Looks good Frozzie, bet the kids love getting to choose their own design.  Can't wait to see what DD chooses and the posted picture. 
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