Show us your buns

[Asterix]

Cool! Didn't know we had a baking thread so I posted in a seperate thread.

Banana bread!

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... Bread

[littlegreenfairy]

This is my latest creation - an edible bouquet:

[soad]

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Clever little creation. Not seen anything remote to it yet. Cheers

[Pixel-Snapper]

littlegreenfairy said:

This is my latest creation - an edible bouquet:

My god im actually quite stunned thats fantastic.

[littlegreenfairy]

I've not quite finished tweaking the idea yet - want to be able to add different sorts of flowers and other bits. It's getting there though. Glad you like it.

It's an utter pain to package and doesn't survive the courier so I'll need to work on that.

[Ciaran]

Ciaran said:

New to taking pictures of your meals!

My first attempt at a lemon drizzle cake.

[Ciaran]

Asterix said:

Cool! Didn't know we had a baking thread so I posted in a seperate thread.

Banana bread!

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... Bread

I'm going to try that this weekend.

OT - I don't suppose you post on F365 perchance?

[Asterix]

Ciaran said:

Asterix said:

Cool! Didn't know we had a baking thread so I posted in a seperate thread.

Banana bread!

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... Bread

I'm going to try that this weekend.

OT - I don't suppose you post on F365 perchance?

I used to - then the UAE/Dubai proxy servers decided to ban the site. I can't be bothered to use another proxy server to get round it all the time as it slows my already crap internet connection speed.

[Sushi]

as promised in my help bulletproof cake recipe request here are the results:
ingredients


melted chocolates and beaten egg whites


folding in egg whites


raw cake in tin


out of tin to cool


It's a little thinne rthan I thought, but I guess as it's a no flour cake it's to be expected, hope it tastes good...will find out tomorrow I guess.

[cslgirl]

A recipe from the mother-in-law, a cherry/coconut/choc slice. Have just eaten my second slice now...it's very moor-ish. While there was some melted chocolate around, I dipped a couple of strawberrys in for one of my "five a day"





Also, made some strawberry fairy cakes for the kids. I chopped some strawberrys up and put them in the cake batter, then pureed some for the icing but added a bit too much red food coluring.

[V8mate]

Spotted mince pies for sale in a supermarket yesterday; sent my taste buds tingling so thought I'd make the first batch of the year.

However, given that there were no expectant hordes, I decided to do some experimentation.

So, on a base recipe for an almond pastry, I did two batches, one with butter the other with Cookeen*. Then also tried some with an egg wash before baking and some without etc.

Varying success; glad I played 'test lab' in October rather than two days beore Christmas!

My poor work colleagues will have to put up with the outputs tomorrow





*Other traditional vegetable oil based baking fats are available

[desyboy]

Updated with a few pics of my latest effort:



and another

[V8mate]

Bravo!

I'm great at baking tasty cakes but have never been very good at decorating them at all.

Take my hat off to you!

[Mobile Chicane]

desyboy said:

Updated with a few pics of my latest effort:



and another

That's amazing.

You should have an exhibition of cake photographs / a book published.

Would make a great calendar as well.

[escargot]

Wow, that is seriously impressive stuff Desyboy.

[V8mate]

Who was the lucky recipient?



ETA:
[cakenerd]
And can we see inside when it's cut open?
[/cakenerd]

Edited by V8mate on Wednesday 27th October 10:08

[desyboy]

Recipient was someone that my mates wife works with. My mate and me started making cakes for family and friends kids birthdays and thought we could try selling them to others to make a bit of cash to get more baking equipment. Have sold a few now, but its still mostly a hobby.

Don't have a photo of the cake cut open, as I wasn't at the party the cake was for, but its 3 layers of plain sponge with jam and vanilla buttercream between each layer.

[Del 203]

Cotty said:

Loving the helmet

[escargot]

[A911DOM]

desyboy said:

Updated with a few pics of my latest effort:



and another

Jeez, thats some attention to detail... Must have been a LOT of time and effort went in to that - I hope you were rewarded hansomely!

My mrs still does the occasional character cake (for the kids birthdays and returning customers from when she used to sell them).

I'll try and find a shot of the latest effort - Here we go, found it:



Everything is edible of course!
(Edit: Oooh, except the feathers and bow around the cake...)

Edited by A911DOM on Wednesday 27th October 17:09