Practice Run - CAKE BAKING

[Too Late]

Hi all

So, a few weeks ago, I had drank a few beers, and made the mistake of saying i would bake my sons birthday cake.

So this weekend is meant to be the practice run.

I have bought all the ingredients and the Number 2 silicon cake mould.

Now, the plan is to make a "rainbow" cake. Go big or go home i thought..

https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/rainbow-cake.ht...

Reading the world wide web, it seems people use from 2 - 6 large eggs. Is the recipe in the link above ok to follow?
Any recommendations or tips?

I will update with progress for those interested.....

[Steve Campbell]

We want full photo's of the entire process :-), including how the kitchen looks after you are finished LOL

Good luck !

[21TonyK]

A completely fool proof sponge is:

250g Self raising flour
250g Vegetable oil
250g Caster sugar
5 medium eggs

Whisk the whole lot up in a bowl and pour into a non stick tin with a grease proof paper on the base (or your silicone mould)

You may need to adjust the quantities according to the sizes but if you follow the principal of 1 egg to 50g of everything else you can scale up and down as required. Add various food colourings to the mixes and that's about it.

They you can faff around decorating it.

[Turn7]

21TonyK said:

A completely fool proof sponge is:

250g Self raising flour
250g Vegetable oil
250g Caster sugar
5 medium eggs

Whisk the whole lot up in a bowl and pour into a non stick tin with a grease proof paper on the base (or your silicone mould)

You may need to adjust the quantities according to the sizes but if you follow the principal of 1 egg to 50g of everything else you can scale up and down as required. Add various food colourings to the mixes and that's about it.

They you can faff around decorating it.

6,6,6 and 3 was my mothers golden rule....

[Bill]

Or weigh the eggs (in their shells) and use the same amount of flour, butter (veg oil - WTF?!?) and sugar.

We need pics, obvs...


(SWMBO does the baking in our house, she's improved but some of her attempts have been, er, amazing... My brother was pleasantly surprised by one and declared it "edible" )

[Too Late]

So.

Baking is not as easy as I thought. bks...










Soooooo
I ran out of time for the fondant for my first run
I ran out of icing sugar
I lost the flat level so it started bulged in the middle.
The recipe said spilt the mix to 6 but that looked too thin so I went 4 ways. Not sure if I should have or not

Next run
I need more ingredients
Need a tool to spread the icing
Fondant the whole cake is worrying me.

I had one mould. I need another I think.
Should I have created smaller layers?

[Steve Campbell]

Disappointed. That doesn't look too bad for a first attempt :-)

[dazwalsh]

He is 2, he isn't going to be upset about the aesthetics I don't think. If I'm being picky I think the sponges need to be thicker, or more layers but careful with the butter cream, it can get very sickly with that in between each layer.

Don't worry about aesthetics, fondant will cover all that.

Edited by dazwalsh on Tuesday 31st October 00:11

[4x4Tyke]

Cracking is caused by the oven being too hot, if yours is fan assisted knock off 20C, if you did that already move the shelf down a little.

How spongy is it? It looks a bit flat to me, beat the sugar, butter egg blend a more before adding the flour. The recipe is not very clear, but the right order is cream the sugar and butter together until smooth, add the eggs and blend until a runny mixture and steadily add flour while blending.

Edited by 4x4Tyke on Tuesday 31st October 00:39