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Carving a cake into a number
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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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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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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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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Make 5 rectangular cakes then line them up to make a digital number 2. The icing will cover the gaps.
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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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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.
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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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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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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The usual way - split horizontally and filled with buttercream and jam, crumb coated with buttercream and then covered with fondant
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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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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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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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Just don't make the first cake in the second row by accident.
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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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