Baked anything tasty lately?

Psychologeeee

Psychologeeee wrote: »

Hey, looks fab! You have a nice vibrant red colour in the meringue. Do you use any particular type of food colouring?

Yeah I swear by the Sugarflair paste colours! You only need the tiniest bit for a really strong colour and it doesn't fade in the bake you can also mix shades to get different colours

Dizzyblonde

Very best of luck with the competition Sabre0001 and piratequeen!

Psychologeeee

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Yeah I swear by the Sugarflair paste colours! You only need the tiniest bit for a really strong colour and it doesn't fade in the bake you can also mix shades to get different colours

Thanks for that! I usually use one in a little container from homestore and more but I haven't found it that vibrant!

Psychologeeee

Psychologeeee wrote: »

Thanks for that! I usually use one in a little container from homestore and more but I haven't found it that vibrant!

Are they the Wilton ones? That's the other main brand of paste colours besides Sugarflair, I've never used them myself but I've heard anecdotally that they're duller and not as good. You can get the Sugarflair ones online anyway they're about €3-4 a pot!

Also, my cake won this week so I'm entered into the final next week to win a KitchenAid! If anyone feels going to the Dr Oetker facebook page next week to vote for it that would be great

chuckles30

Congratulations Piratequeen - I was here earlier and now I've just seen this cake pop up on my fb feed as the winner.

chuckles30

chuckles30 wrote: »

Congratulations Piratequeen - I was here earlier and now I've just seen this cake pop up on my fb feed as the winner.

Thanks! I think the voting starts on Tuesday, make sure to give it a like then so I can upgrade my tiny €7 argos mixer to a KitchenAid :P

Making a 'rainbow unicorn cake' for my friend's daughter's 2nd birthday at the weekend which will keep me in the kitchen most of Saturday! :eek:

Psychologeeee

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Thanks! I think the voting starts on Tuesday, make sure to give it a like then so I can upgrade my tiny €7 argos mixer to a KitchenAid :P

Making a 'rainbow unicorn cake' for my friend's daughter's 2nd birthday at the weekend which will keep me in the kitchen most of Saturday! :eek:

I really hope you can upgrade! Those argos ones tend to burn out when making batches of buttercream!

Psychologeeee

Psychologeeee wrote: »

I really hope you can upgrade! Those argos ones tend to burn out when making batches of buttercream!

Yeah mine has started to spark when I turn it up to high speeds...!

gizmo81

Made Cinnamon Swirls (Starbucks Style) in a joint effort with the housemate today.

First time to make a bread dough. Wasn't as complicated as I thought but the housemate did most of the kneading.

We used mixed peel but next time will get an orange to zest will have that fresher flavour.

Very tasty though but fugly, will take a picture on the second attempt

http://miaumiaucooking.blogspot.ie/2013/09/starbucks-style-cinnamon-rolls.html?m=1

gizmo81

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I made Pesto Ham and Cheese Pinwheels.

Specially Selected Red Pesto
A roll of puff pastry
Cooked ham cut finely
Mozzarella
Red Cheddar
Rock Salt

Cooked in the Air Fryer in 10 mins.

(Will need to try some lardons or something, the ham isn't cutting it.)

arian

Chorizo?

gizmo81

arian wrote: »

Chorizo?

Yeh with a monterey jack cheese might be nice alright

Rainbow unicorn cake was a success! I screwed up two of the layers & had to remake them (broke one and added too much colouring to another and accidentally turned it black ) so I turned the duds into Nutella cake pops! Think I spent about 12 hours in the kitchen yesterday!

tickingclock

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Rainbow unicorn cake was a success! I screwed up two of the layers & had to remake them (broke one and added too much colouring to another and accidentally turned it black ) so I turned the duds into Nutella cake pops! Think I spent about 12 hours in the kitchen yesterday!

You've set the bar very impressively high for the birthday cakes that will follow!

tickingclock

tickingclock wrote: »

You've set the bar very impressively high for the birthday cakes that will follow!

Haha I know I made her cake last year too but it'll hard to outdo next time! Hopefully she won't ask for anything too difficult

The final of the baking competition has started, I'd love if any fellow baking-lovers here clicked the link below and voted for my cake!

Vote for my meringue kiss cake!

RasTa

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The final of the baking competition has started, I'd love if any fellow baking-lovers here clicked the link below and voted for my cake!

Vote for my meringue kiss cake!

Where is your product placement?!

RasTa

RasTa wrote: »

Where is your product placement?!

Lol I think the only Dr.Oetker product I actually used to make it was vanilla extract...all the colours were SugarFlair! They did send me a lot of Dr.Oetker goodies as a finalist thought so I'll have lots to play with now

I'm useless at baking but made a pineapple upside down cake on the weekend. It was actually really tasty

Psychologeeee

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I'm useless at baking but made a pineapple upside down cake on the weekend. It was actually really tasty

I thought the cake was actually a pineapple from that angle!

Hi everyone, today is the last day to vote in the baking competition I'm a finalist in! I'm currently very narrowly in the lead so I'd really appreciate if any boardsies gave me a like over on the link below

Vote for my cake!

RasTa

I've no FB but that chocolate cake deserves last place.

RasTa

RasTa wrote: »

I've no FB but that chocolate cake deserves last place.

Sabre's was definitely better

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I made Madeleines over the weekend but they didn't turn out great. They taste fine but the texture isn't right. They're an eggy sponge mixture, basically, but whenever I make an eggy sponge it gets like a thin layer on the top that comes away from the rest of the sponge. Anyone else get this or know what I'm doing wrong?

angeldelight

I made a coconut and lemon sponge with lemon curd and buttercream filling... it was nice but some recipes just get on my nerves. The lemon curd wasn't in the list of ingredients it just appeared in the method, ingredients said butter then the method said unsalted butter. Also it took about 30 mins longer to bake than it said!

angeldelight

angeldelight wrote: »

I made a coconut and lemon sponge with lemon curd and buttercream filling... it was nice but some recipes just get on my nerves. The lemon curd wasn't in the list of ingredients it just appeared in the method, ingredients said butter then the method said unsalted butter. Also it took about 30 mins longer to bake than it said!

I always use regular butter where it says unsalted butter and never had any problems. I can only ever find tiny expensive packages of unsalted butter in the supermarkets here!

angeldelight

Oh I did as that was what I had it just drives me mad when people are so imprecise when putting together a recipe

angeldelight

angeldelight wrote: »

Oh I did as that was what I had it just drives me mad when people are so imprecise when putting together a recipe

Yeah I totally agree, some are so badly written. I was making a dessert recently and accidentally added 50% more sugar than I was supposed to, because there were 2 different parts that needed sugar but they only listed the total amount in the ingredients list.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

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Yeah I totally agree, some are so badly written. I was making a dessert recently and accidentally added 50% more sugar than I was supposed to, because there were 2 different parts that needed sugar but they only listed the total amount in the ingredients list.

I had a book once that had a recipe that had chorizo in the title and quite clearly visible in the picture but didn't list it at all in the ingredients.

Photo not great, but I made a very tasty "key" lime pie yesterday (1/2 quantity so thin slices).

Whispered

That looks lovely. It's one of my all time favourite desserts.

I stopped making lime pie thanks to the fact my husband is such a mammies boy. It was his favourite dessert. He said he was going to bring a slice to his mother. I said "Dont. Because sure as hell there will be something wrong with it".

Sure enough it was "too sweet" and I was annoyed at just how many times it was mentioned that it was very sweet and luscious. That evening he said "well it is very sweet in fairness........" and that was the end of my line pie journey.

Gloomtastic!

Whispered wrote: »

That looks lovely. It's one of my all time favourite desserts.

I stopped making lime pie thanks to the fact my husband is such a mammies boy. It was his favourite dessert. He said he was going to bring a slice to his mother. I said "Dont. Because sure as hell there will be something wrong with it".

Sure enough it was "too sweet" and I was annoyed at just how many times it was mentioned that it was very sweet and luscious. That evening he said "well it is very sweet in fairness........" and that was the end of my line pie journey.

How many days/weeks did you send him to the doghouse for that little cracker? And has he even realised why he was there?

(If I stopped cooking things Mrs G! criticised, she'd get nothing! :eek:)

RentDayBlues

My 5 year olds birthday cake, really happy with how it turned out

gizmo81

RentDayBlues wrote: »

My 5 year olds birthday cake, really happy with how it turned out

Great way to incorporate the sponge and the biscuit cakes. Looks great.

Psychologeeee

RentDayBlues wrote: »

My 5 year olds birthday cake, really happy with how it turned out

The distribution of your biscuits in your chocolate cake is perfect! Nothing sinking to the bottom there

B0jangles

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I'm useless at baking but made a pineapple upside down cake on the weekend. It was actually really tasty

Looks lovely! - I always wanted to make one, I think there was a picture of one in my school home economics book and it just looked so tasty and nicely old-fashioned. Now that I actually have my very own tins of pineapple and glacé cherries, I just might go ahead and do it

B0jangles

B0jangles wrote: »

Looks lovely! - I always wanted to make one, I think there was a picture of one in my school home economics book and it just looked so tasty and nicely old-fashioned. Now that I actually have my very own tins of pineapple and glacé cherries, I just might go ahead and do it

You should. It's real comfort dessert. I'll definitely be making it again.

RentDayBlues

Psychologeeee wrote: »

The distribution of your biscuits in your chocolate cake is perfect! Nothing sinking to the bottom there

Thank you!

RentDayBlues

gizmo81 wrote: »

Great way to incorporate the sponge and the biscuit cakes. Looks great.

Thank you, she wanted the biscuit cake and while I love it, it's just so sweet so needed the sponge to balance

confusticated

Wanted to make something lemony the other night but had a ton of apples to use, so added some lemon curd to an apple tart. Will be doing it again, it made it lovely and zingy, although would add a bit less next time because there was a bit too much liquid while it was hot.

Dizzyblonde

confusticated wrote: »

Wanted to make something lemony the other night but had a ton of apples to use, so added some lemon curd to an apple tart. Will be doing it again, it made it lovely and zingy, although would add a bit less next time because there was a bit too much liquid while it was hot.

I sprinkle a little flour over apple tarts before putting on the top pastry. It thickens the juice, so should help with the lemon and apple tarts if you don't want to have a less lemony flavour.

Psychologeeee

Cupcake Teddy Bear! A fiddly yoke to make.

angeldelight

Psychologeeee wrote: »

Cupcake Teddy Bear! A fiddly yoke to make.

Very cute!

Psychologeeee

angeldelight wrote: »

Very cute!

Thanks! For anyone wondering, the icing is mainly Biscoff flavoured, with chocolate fudge ears and vanilla eyes. I make the biscoff icing myself, but cheated with betty crocker for the rest. I was under time pressure and couldn't make them all at once. First time I've ever cheated with icing but oh well!

Psychologeeee

Psychologeeee wrote: »

Thanks! For anyone wondering, the icing is mainly Biscoff flavoured, with chocolate fudge ears and vanilla eyes. I make the biscoff icing myself, but cheated with betty crocker for the rest. I was under time pressure and couldn't make them all at once. First time I've ever cheated with icing but oh well!

That sounds amazing, how did you make the biscoff icing?

Psychologeeee

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That sounds amazing, how did you make the biscoff icing?

You can get Biscoff spread in Dealz/Dunnes or online, in either a smooth or crunchy variety.

Cream 250g butter/marg, 200g of Biscoff & 500g of icing sugar and you're done! Tastes exactly like the biscuits! It's a great versatile icing!

Psychologeeee

Psychologeeee wrote: »

You can get Biscoff spread in Dealz/Dunnes or online, in either a smooth or crunchy variety.

Cream 250g butter/marg, 200g of Biscoff & 500g of icing sugar and you're done! Tastes exactly like the biscuits! It's a great versatile icing!

Ah that's what I figured, thanks! Sounds delish!

Corkgirl18

Fridge was overflowing with lemons so I made some lemon meringue cupcakes.
It was my first time making lemon curd and was really happy with the result!

Vel

Ginger and white chocolate rocky road.

Delicious. Supposed to do me 'for the week'. Finished them off within 2 days, with a small bit of help from the kids!

Sabre0001

Vel wrote: »

Ginger and white chocolate rocky road.

Delicious. Supposed to do me 'for the week'. Finished them off within 2 days, with a small bit of help from the kids!

No wonder! They look great!