I really really really wanna make an Australia shaped cake for Australia day... Every year we go to our good friends house and there's a whole bunch of friends and we just have the BEST day. Back yard cricket, lamb on the barbie and a few drinks. So this year we're either to bring a Salad or a dessert, and I've decided to bring a dessert cause everyone will be bringing a salad. ANYHOO, I really really REALLY wanna make a cake in the shape of Australia, that would be totally awesome.. But I reckon im not artistic enough to do it freehand lol and it would come out looking like i dont know italy or something lol
You could do a huge sheet cake like A4 size, and print out an A4 size print out of the Australia shape. Than put it on top and trace it with an edible pen, or with the knife. I think its easier to cut if its been cooked a day beforehand and kept in the freezer.
Ah well if it looks like italy at least you tried!
I think the best way to do it is how they make shped kids cakes, so make you basic cake recipe in different shaped tins, then carve up the cake afterwards. I'd prob use two round ones and perhaps a rectagula one in the middle. You can make Cape york and tassie from the off cuts you have from shaping the rest of the coast! Give it a whirl, i'd love to see the pics.
If you decide it is all too hard, you could make a flag cake with the aussie flag on it......
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
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
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
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Ah well if it looks like italy at least you tried!
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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