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.
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...................
I wouldn't have thought so. A basic butter icing would be much easier to get a blue color. You could always use ready rolled icing to cut out the stars and cross. You can get it from cake decorators and some supermarkets. You can dye it too. I have never used it but noticed it often!
Actually you can but it would have to be white chocolate
If you're going to use pre-rolled icing make sure you use gloves as the dye gets into your hands when kneading. For the best blue I'd buy some icing gel colour (its a dye not the gel stuff you use for writing) you can get it at cake decorating stores. Normal blue vegetable dye tends to go green with butter icing due to the yellow tinge it has (unless you use spreadable butter in which case for some odd reason it whips whiter). It will also happen with white chocolate buttercream because it is slightly yellow as well. Swiss Meringue icing isn't as yellow, due to the meringue.
Kirsty, I have a womens weekly kids cake book, it's the fantastic cakes with a lion on the front. Anyway, in the back of it, they have an aussie flag cake.
They've made it from a 26cm x 36cm sized baking dish, covered it with whipped cream instead of an icing, then decorated it with blueberries and strawberries. The blueberries - 1.5kgs of them cover pretty much cover most of the cake for the blue, and strawberries for the red', then melted white chocolate piped into star shapes and let to set for the southern cross. it looks pretty cool. If you want I can try to scan it tonight and email it too you?
Absolutely I make it with chocolate cupcakes all the time! Its seriously the most smoothest, silkiest DIVINE icing you've ever had. Its a martha stewart recipe, very popular in the US with wedding cakes and cupcakes
Also if you want to make the WW one, why not go cream cheese icing instead of cream. Will taste soooo much better with the fruit, and yes cream cheese icing goes fantastically with chocolate cupcakes. Its one of my fave combinations and everyone will be wowed I'm sure!
Well in that case cai.. get your recipe crackin on here young lady!!!!
OHH before I forget.. I made the malteser slice i think maybe you put the recipe up for ? OH MY GOD it was like a slice of heaven.. my mum was so jealous and wanted to know how to make it too hahahaah
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cover pretty much cover most of the cake for the blue, and strawberries for the red', then melted white chocolate piped into star shapes and let to set for the southern cross. it looks pretty cool. If you want I can try to scan it tonight and email it too you?
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