Australia shaped cake

[kirsty_lee]

LOl yeah that thought did cross my mind but dp laughed at me.. glad to see it's not so silly after all!

[Junglemum]

i just googled cake and australia, then clicked on images and there is a cool one with the aussie flag on it.....

[christy]

great minds indeed!!

[kirsty_lee]

oooo cool falguni, can you pm me the link?

[kirsty_lee]

Ohhh im so going to do this cake!!!!!!! Quick question though.. How do you girls make your icing..? there are some icing recipes on taste.. but how much dark blue (for the flag) coloring should i put in it? And what flavour cake would you do? Im thinking chocolate cause EVERYONE loves chocolate..

eta: just realised also how the heck am i going to manage the stars and the red and white cross eeep lol

[Dansta]

the best iceing for a cake like that would be butter iceing (it wont melt and as a guide line wont meld into one colour) iceing suger and un-stalted butter... just cream them together from a recipe i've just found (i think its my one from tafe...)
~you'll need~
140g butter softend (unstalted)
280g Iceing sugar (can be the 'blend one' if no one has any glutin issues)
1 tbs milk (optional...)
~methord/maddness~
1. Beat the butter in a large bowl until soft.(dont over do it...) Add half the icing sugar and beat until smooth. (its a very light yellow...)
2. Then add the remaining icing sugar with one tablespoon of the milk. (depending on how thick/thin you want it)
3. add any food colouring you'd like

My tip for making the iceing "smooth" on the cake is smother it with the bace colour (blue?) and use the non-bumpy end of a butter knife and smooth it off (it'll be a little thick...but it 'looks' good) and put it in the fridge to let the butter 'set' (so about 10-15mins..) and then get a copy of the stars/union jack and trace it with a sqwer (sp?) and then use a zip lock bag (or something like it) and fill with the colour for what your doing (eg. stars..white) and cut a corner off it and use it as a pipeing bag, then just fill in the stars.

HTH...PM me if you need any more help...im not good at making the cakes but i have books on it some place here i can scribe out for you

[Rouge]

Depends what sort of icing you like?

The two I make are buttericing and swiss meringue icing oh and chocolate buttercream (white or dark).

Don't forget a crumb coating, and if you want a clean board put 4 thin pieces of parchment on each side of the board (just so the cake sits on top) then once its iced carefully remove the paper and you'll have a clean board.

[kirsty_lee]

Well im not sure what sort of icing to do cause it's got to be blue for the flag kwim? So you couldn't really have a chocolate one? Or could you...................