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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Halex on September 29, 2011, 07:03:18 am
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I borrowed a large cup cake tin from a friend. Should have returned it then & there.
I wanted to make a nice cake for the student teacher in ds class, ds really likes her, so to say thank you i thought this cake would be nice.
1. Cooked at different rates, the top 1/2 was cooked and the large base wasn't! Should have thought oh well freeze it and serve with ice cream for 1 month.
2. Botton cake came out of tin OK, top cake slightly burnt and broke in 2.
3. Stuck together OK with butter icing
4 looks like the leaning tower of pisa
5. Piping on top great, OK we can fix this, should have ad a stiff drink at this stage, but no continued on
6. Piping on side kept falling off, wouldn't stay on!!!!!
7. OK we will just smooth icing round, wrong
8. Run out of icing, used 550g butter already, now have to make yellow the same
9.icing good, OK Leys Make it look like a children's ice cream,
10 find 100's & 1000's stick them on the base and then silver balls at the top. Of course not enough 100's etc so very patchy.
Now looks like something ds has made.
Not happy, cant ditch it as a waste, will taste Good but looks amateurish.
Anyway How do you pipe on the side. ??? ???
Hally >:(
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Hally, a new thread has just been started today for failures - send me a picture and I'll put it in there for you ;D
Sometimes you just have to stay out of the kitchen. At least your KFC was a success today.
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No its too embarassing........
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i would love to see the picture
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Go on Hally, you can't be embarrassed! ;D
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Because yiu asked so. Icely have sent 2 pics to jd >:(
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I need oonjons can i take it to school tomorrow, imhat waste
H >:(
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I bet it tastes nice, no matter what it looks like.
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what do you need hally
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Hally, get Crown Prince to add some smarties and tell her he helped you make it. You really should get some Chooks. They just love it when I have a disaster, and it is returned in eggs. :-)) :-)) :-))
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God thinking I might just do that ;D
Oh Fundji didnt you understand my message!LOL
I need opinions as to whether i can take it toschool, my pride says no but my bank account says yes!!!
Hate waste
H >:(
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i got stuck on oonjons
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Anyway How do you pipe on the side. ??? ???
Hally, try warming up some jam, brush on then ice on top. It should help it stick.
I wouldn't bother piping sides, just using a palette knife would be easier.
Pressing on sprinkles/coconut/chocolate shavings will also hide the gaps too ;)
Kids will love it regardless!
I must say, I hadn't bought that cupcake tin for the reasons that happened to you.
I had been caught before with some novelty tins, where cake capacity was smaller in areas, which makes for a P.I.T.A cake :-))
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Hally, it's not that bad - I like the idea that DS made it though. Would he go along with the story though :D :D
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Judy you didnt post the good top photo!!!
;D
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Sorry Hally, here it is. You step out for an hour or so and when you come back there are heaps of postings ;)
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thats nice hally :)
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Yes Maddy so glad I borrowed the cake tin and didnt biy it.
H :)
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Thanks Fundji, i showd it to the boys here and they thiught it was fantastic, so it will be going to school. Get it cut up straight away so none can see it.LOL
H :)
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Hally, you are being too critical on yourself!......it's a giant cupcake of sunshine! 8)
.....and for what it's worth, any cake baked from scratch is a star (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-happy119.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)
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Thanks Maddy, wont be using those types of tins again.
H
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Yes, it was a great effort Hally. Now to get it to school in one piece - looks enough to feed the whole class.
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Thanks JD, 23 kids & 2 teachers
H :)
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I imagined something a lot different to that Hally - yes I would definitely take it to school. I am sure the kids will love it
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Thans CP, but to me its a dsaster, I am a perfectionist ad its awful.
Anyway, all tastes good & its the thought that counts :)
H :)
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It looks good Hally don't be too critical
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Hally, anything made with lots of love ALWAYS tastes good. You are a good sport posting your cake for all of us to see. It looks terrific.
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Hally it's lovely. Please take it. Have you ever seen a kid turn down the chance to eat cake ? :D
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It looks amazing and made me smile (in a good way I mean)! :) I think your student teacher will feel very special.
I used a tin like this and had the same problem - so I just pleated some tin foil around the base half to look like a silver cup cake wrapper. Voila, and no icing of sides required ;D
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The cake is smashing Hally.I would be over the moon if someone had spent the time to make something special for me. ;D
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I don't think it looks bad at all. The one I made for my sons birthday last year was WAY worse, and I still served it up to the whole party :-)) Nobody really care as long as it tastes yum ;)
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Thank you everyone, you are all being too kind.
Kids love cake so its going, but will try and hde in a box so not nany adukts see it. :)
Love the idea of foil, too late now but that would have been easy.
H :)
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I find I often need to use foil Hally particularly if I make one cake using ILB choc cake mixture and the same applied last week when I made the choc cake which I posted. :) :)
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oh hally dont be so hard on yourself..im like you though alot harder on myself than others are and I think like everyone said homemade cake is always good (well mostly ...tried some cakes from mums at our cake stalls for the school and boy oh boy bland horrible tasting cakes) but not you miss H..its all good....and all they will remember is how good it tasted! :)
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Hally I love your cake. It is obviously home made with love. It will mean so much more than a store bought one. I'll bet the kids adored it and the student teacher would have taken photos of it.
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I will let you all know, off to school nw.
Yes its is 2 Ilovebimby chocolate cakes, so taste great.
H :) who hopefully will come home ;D
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Well......the student teacher thipought the cake was amazing, when I walked in all the kids went WOW.
Quite a few of the kids told me it was very very nice cake.
Hally :)
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Congratulations Hally. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Lovely news Hally,all your effort rewarded by everyone. :)
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Thanks Chookie, and to thhink I was going to bin it!!
H :)
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Thanks CC, yes the student teacher was over whelmed. Bless her.
H :)
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Well done Hally! I knew everyone would love it :)
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I am not going to say it .............................but what the hell i will, we told you soooooooo :P
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Of course she would have appreciated it Hally, how often does that sort of thing happen just out of the blue. You brightened everyone's day today when you took it in - may your generosity be returned in many ways. I bet DS was so proud of his Mum.
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Thank you everyone,
Yes she did take photos as I cringed.
Yes she really loved the cake and appreciated what I did.
She is getting married in December, we have all been invited to the church.
Ds really wants to go.
H :)
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that so sweet of her to invite you to her wedding
when my DD got married last year she also invited her year 12 girls
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so happy it all went well hally :)