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Carving a cake into a number
Andy Birkenhead
18-03-2013
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 ?
ff999
18-03-2013
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?
Andy Birkenhead
18-03-2013
Originally Posted by ff999:
“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
SeasideLady
18-03-2013
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.
degsyhufc
18-03-2013
Make 5 rectangular cakes then line them up to make a digital number 2. The icing will cover the gaps.
Andy Birkenhead
18-03-2013
Originally Posted by degsyhufc:
“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
Andy Birkenhead
18-03-2013
Originally Posted by SeasideLady:
“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'
simonmoore
18-03-2013
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Individual-P...3643231&sr=8-1
Andy Birkenhead
18-03-2013
Originally Posted by simonmoore:
“http://www.amazon.co.uk/Individual-P...3643231&sr=8-1”

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
Evilclive
18-03-2013
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.
ff999
19-03-2013
Originally Posted by Andy Birkenhead:
“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.
simonmoore
19-03-2013
Originally Posted by Andy Birkenhead:
“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.
martdcee
21-03-2013
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
Rorschach
21-03-2013
Originally Posted by martdcee:
“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.
Andy Birkenhead
21-03-2013
Originally Posted by Rorschach:
“Just don't make the first cake in the second row by accident. ”

Or don't deliver it to the wrong party !
martdcee
22-03-2013
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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