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chocolate cake with a couple of drops of orange essence? use orange essence instead of vanilla in the buttercream icing??
pm me your email addy hun - don't have it on this puter
actually, if you google "white wedding mud cake" it's the first one that comes up (womans day one)
Ohhh i will google that cake, would this work do you think.... with butter icing ??
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So with yours hun would i swap the white choc for normal choc and the vanilla for orange essence and then just do a butter icing?
Is it an ''EASY' recipe or will it take me a bit to work it out? I will be using a square tin, high sided as every time i use the low side tin the cake rises too much in the middle.
Eeek going to do a test run this week then make it again next week, might be having dinner here now with DP's family & my mum and brothers... eeekkkk
Wish me luck everyone, am attempting BG's mud cake recipe and turning it into a JAFFA MUD CAKE... eeeeeek
Oh 1 question though i actually happened to get 'salted butter' instead of unsalted, does that matter - the recipe just calls for butter.
I might have some unsalted in the freezer if needed ??
ETA: no unslated in the freezer so instead of risking it am driving into town to buy some butter for the butter icing and the cake ;)
OMG CAKE IS IN THE OVEN.... i hope it turns out OK... Argh :wall:
Ok so the cake is out, it cooked for over 2hrs, when a skewer went in it comes out clean and the top was starting to crust over a bit.
Let it sit for 10min in the tin, turned it out (came out easy) then DD1 pulled on the side and 1 whole side split and the base cracked :(so was it over cooked, undercooked or just bad luck?
Going to let it cool, ice it and then pop it in the fridge til DP gets home then have a taste test.. smells ok.
Hmmmm how do i stop it splitting/cracking so next week i can ice it properly.
PICS HERE - doesn't look right AT ALL :(
possibly a little over cooked hun - what's it like in the middle?
Seems cooked, maybe I should do oven at 150 and cook for same time next week? Taste test when do gets home.
A stuffed the icing though by helping herself and putting it on the warm
Cake while I was out if the room :( needless to say it melted & looks fowl!
Sent from my iPhone, more than likely while I should be doing something else!
oh dear!
Looks a little overcooked, but I'm sure it still tastes scrumptious. Enjoy munching on it :D
So if i maybe put the oven on say 150 or 140 with the fan on and cook it for 2hrs do you think it would be better?
Will do the taste test later and the icing WILL NOT be going on while Ava is awake next week... :wall: :wall: :wall:
I'd tend to go shy of the time it says to cook it. I'd keep it on the same temp and when it gets close to the time it's supposed to be ready, start checking it. If the top cracks, you can always flip it, but it doesn't matter so much if you're going to ice it.
How was it to taste though? Was it dry or was it okay? If it tasted okay, I wouldn't fiddle with it too much. Sorry, probably stating the obvious...I'm bloody tired.
Looking at it now it's cooling a bit it looks a little dry for a mud cake, i prob could have taken it out say 10-20min earlier, the skewer was coming out clean but the top still looked a bit soft... maybe it's meant to be like that and it goes a little more solid as it cools?
Should have just taken you up on your offer ;) oh well as long as next weeks turns out ok.. if not might have a packet mix on hand JIC :)
NOt that she's having a party but still, her cakes the years before have been STUNNING and now mums effort SUCKS :rofl:
hey - that's why you do a trial run :) and i bet the cake still tastes yummy!
mud cakes are often a little gooey in the middle - not uncooked, just fairly moist - itms? so maybe 10mins earlier might have just done the trick? nothing a bit of icing/cream won't fix though :lol:
Oh yeah, what Sloane said -- any cracks, just fill it with ganache or icing :D
Thanks ladies, should have just gone with my gut and taken it out earlier ;)
Oh well fingers crossed for next weeks attempt.. :rofl:
TAKE II TODAY.
A friend is making me some fondant, so i will cook the cake today, allow it to cool properly and then decorate it when DD1 goes to bed.
We are also cheating and making a packet mix of cupcakes for her b'day breakfast tomorrow with my dad who wont be here tomorrow night.
The cupcakes are going to be 'worm'cupcakes, am going to put a drop of green in the icing and then crumble a bit of flake on the top then have a grub coming out of it ;)
DP mentioned a worm cake last week and she's wanted a 'worm cake' ever since so this is our compromise.
I traced out the base of the cake and worked out where i ant to put her figurnines etc on the cake, so having green fondant, blue sprinkles to make a river, got a little bridge, dora carrying a picnic basket, boots waiting for her and swiper hiding behind a tree.
Then i will write her name with those pen things and put a #3 candle on it.. what do you think?
NO idea whats going on ladies but it cracked again, i managed to get it onto the cooling rack without half of it splitting but the top had cracked and 1 crack has run down to the base.
Cake is now in the fridge and hopefully it kinds nof sets a little harder so when i ice it tonight it doesn't just split open again :(
NO idea why, was on the right temp and cooked it ledd but it was splitting before the middle was even cooked.
Am using fondant a friend made so hopefully i can drape it over the cake and we wont even notice... SHATTERED i should have just stuck to a packet mix.