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Old 18-03-2013, 19:21
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I am going to be making a "Number" cake soon, and it will be a number 2- No jokes at the back please !
What is the best cake to carve into a number two ?
Victoria sponge ?
Madeira ?
Or do you use a different cake ?
Do you have a cake tin in the shape of the number in question ?
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Old 18-03-2013, 20:30
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Madeira cake wil be solid enough to cope with a bit of shaping and cutting and still hold its shape. Victoria sandwich would be quite flimsy.
I have number tins but its just as easy to cut from a template. How are you planning to cover it?
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Old 18-03-2013, 20:37
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Madeira cake wil be solid enough to cope with a bit of shaping and cutting and still hold its shape. Victoria sandwich would be quite flimsy.
I have number tins but its just as easy to cut from a template. How are you planning to cover it?
The usual way - split horizontally and filled with buttercream and jam, crumb coated with buttercream and then covered with fondant
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Old 18-03-2013, 20:41
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Make a big square sponge cake, slice it in half and sandwich together with buttercream and / or jam. Draw a big " 2 " on a piece of paper, and place it on top of cake. Using it as a template, you can cut around it, then ice it with chocolate icing or whatever.
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Old 18-03-2013, 20:51
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Make 5 rectangular cakes then line them up to make a digital number 2. The icing will cover the gaps.
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Old 18-03-2013, 21:01
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Make 5 rectangular cakes then line them up to make a digital number 2. The icing will cover the gaps.
Thanks Degsy, but I don't fancy that. I'm going with a 'traditional' shaped number 2
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Old 18-03-2013, 21:04
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Make a big square sponge cake, slice it in half and sandwich together with buttercream and / or jam. Draw a big " 2 " on a piece of paper, and place it on top of cake. Using it as a template, you can cut around it, then ice it with chocolate icing or whatever.
That's my intention.
The diagonal part of the 2 wil have the childs' name, and the 'foot' of the 2 will have "Happy Birthday" on it
I will also include a candle in the shape of a '2'
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Old 18-03-2013, 21:47
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Old 18-03-2013, 22:01
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Thanks Simon, but if you go down the page, someone says that they are miniature sized, not full sized.
The size of the number I'm doing will be the size of an A4 sheet of paper
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Old 18-03-2013, 23:23
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I also would go with madeira cake, just print off a big number 2, keep your off cuts just in case you need to patch, or make cake pops. Firm up in the fridge for half a hour in the fridge just to make sure it does not twist when covering with fondant. You will be doing a lot of smoothing.

Good luck.
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Old 19-03-2013, 00:42
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The usual way - split horizontally and filled with buttercream and jam, crumb coated with buttercream and then covered with fondant
Madeira cake will be lovely for this.
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Old 19-03-2013, 07:13
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Thanks Simon, but if you go down the page, someone says that they are miniature sized, not full sized.
The size of the number I'm doing will be the size of an A4 sheet of paper
Cool. You get my drift though. There must be bigger ones somewhere.
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Old 21-03-2013, 11:00
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if you use this method which would mean making a circle and a loaf size cake, i would imagine you get a lot less cutoff cake then if you make a rectangle and cut round a template

http://martdcee.picturepush.com/albu...etail/12138291
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Old 21-03-2013, 12:28
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if you use this method which would mean making a circle and a loaf size cake, i would imagine you get a lot less cutoff cake then if you make a rectangle and cut round a template

http://martdcee.picturepush.com/albu...etail/12138291
Just don't make the first cake in the second row by accident.
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Old 21-03-2013, 19:10
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Just don't make the first cake in the second row by accident.
Or don't deliver it to the wrong party !
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Old 22-03-2013, 10:09
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i didnt get what you both meant when i read your replies lol. sorry someone on the foodpicture thread asked to see it a while back. i did put on a big warning when i posted it before, but because i was only trying to show you the numbers i totally forgot that one was there
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