May 11th 2012 - Friday Freebie!
We will be running the Friday Freebie competitions from our blog as we are not allowed to run competitions on facebook anymore :( but anyhoo we are giving two sets of baking cups away a lovely blue stripe and soft pink stripe from the Paper Eskimo range.
These lovely cases are from the Paper Eskimo Range and are that extra something special you need to finish off a special order.
For a chance to win a pack, comment under this blog post and answer the question below.
Two random winners will be announced on this blog, so check back here on Sunday to see if you have won!!
Question: What has been your biggest baking disaster to date?
Looking forward to hearing your stories!
Different designs can be bought from the Cake Decorating Company
http://www.thecakedecoratingcompany.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=4466&ref=14
Rosie xx
We will be running the Friday Freebie competitions from our blog as we are not allowed to run competitions on facebook anymore :( but anyhoo we are giving two sets of baking cups away a lovely blue stripe and soft pink stripe from the Paper Eskimo range.
These lovely cases are from the Paper Eskimo Range and are that extra something special you need to finish off a special order.
For a chance to win a pack, comment under this blog post and answer the question below.
Two random winners will be announced on this blog, so check back here on Sunday to see if you have won!!
Question: What has been your biggest baking disaster to date?
Looking forward to hearing your stories!
Different designs can be bought from the Cake Decorating Company
http://www.thecakedecoratingcompany.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=4466&ref=14
Rosie xx
I could never make sponge it always came out VERY flat lol, until my daughter aged 13 at the time showed me how hers always came out like sky scrapers lol. I havent looked back since.
ReplyDeleteGreat question! I think mine would be a giant cupcake disaster. Took it out of the oven way too early and both the top and bottom parts completely collapsed as it was still runny inside! Learnt that lesson the hard way!
ReplyDeleteAbout 2 months ago I spent 2 days creating my first ever castle cake, it was 3 tier's with 11 towers, it looked great, until I arrived at the venue to deliver it, removed the lid and the whole thing had collapsed, I spent 45 minutes into the children's party rebuilding it in front of all the arriving guests :(
ReplyDeleteWhen making a cake for my daughter who was having a sleepover (thanks goodness it wasn't for a paying customer!) I somehow added peppermint extract to the cake batter instead of glycerine.....it was like eating toothpaste!! Will never do that again!
ReplyDeleteThese are super cute! I love cupcake wraps, they really add that extra something.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, my biggest disaster... Ahahaha. Definitely a 4-tier wedding cake (chocolate, vanilla, red velvet and a fruit cake top tier), all white fondant covered in hundreds of sugar roses, blossoms and leaves. I can't even remember now how many hours of work it was, just that for what felt like months all I did was come home from work and sit at my desk making flowers until it was time for bed. My other half was starting to feel very neglected! XD
Anyway, the day of the wedding, the cake was done, looked beautiful (if I do say so myself!), and we pack it away in the car nice and safe, and even get it to the venue in one piece! Only problem is, the mother of the bride is already there.. with the grandchildren in tow. Who are not the kind of children to stand still for two moments, or do as they're told for as long. Never mind the fact that she was making absolutely no effort to control them. My other half was slightly ahead of me, opening doors as we went, and all of a sudden two children come barreling out through the door he's holding, INTO my legs. Now this is one heavy cake - or should I say, WAS one heavy cake. Cake met floor, and the entire thing was absolutely ruined. (And of course, the mother turned out to be the type who shouted and screamed, and whose grandchildren could do absolutely no wrong, little angels that they were.)
The bridge and groom had cake in the end (to the pain of my bank account) but needless to say, that was not a good day for me. Tears were shed.
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ReplyDeleteI was making a batch of chocolate cupcakes for my best friends mums birthday, when they came out of the oven they looked awful really crusty and hard, i then tried one and it had no taste and i couldnt work out what i had done, i then realised i hadnt put the sugar in i now make sure i tick off everything when i add it!!
ReplyDeletemy biggest disaster was when ... made a giant cupcake cake all decorated on a cake board , and i was taking and home where all the rush hour traffic was going buy and i dropped it straight on the floor and it went every where :( and everyone if there cars saw it go SPLAT !!
ReplyDeletemine was a giant cupcake disater... it was on my kitchen table ready for a photographer to collect for a baby cake smash...i went upstairs to get changed out of my clothes as they were full of icing sugar...left my little un watching mr tumble...he was very quiet and as i came downstairs i noticed i hadnt shut the baby gate!!! sick feeling creeped over me! all i could hear was mmmmm mmmmm nice cake.....i peeped round the corner and to my horror he was sat on the floor, with the cake!! que the photographer!! she came in and as i told her what happend we both laughed and she snapped away, turned out it was just for her portfolio so she used my lad and the cake as her work....phewww!!!! gates are shut and double checked now hehe
ReplyDeleteid love the blue cases so i could make my son cakes of his own to enjoy xx
Mine was a teddy bear cake took hours to make but I was really pleased and proud with the end result, he sat up looking sweetly at me and I left him overnight to set, however he obviously got tired of waiting because by morning he himself had laid down to take a nap!.............did fix it eventually though took a lot of fondant......I did say he was sweet though! X
ReplyDeletemine was fathers day last yr i wanted to make a big trophy cake for my kids dad, everything was going well till i put the carved trophy shape bit on top of the base part i had made i didnt no much about dowells at the time n used cheap straws from pound land big mistake the whole thing fell over n landed on the kitchen floor i was so deverstated almost gave up baking for good felt a right failure :(
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DeleteI managed to add 3 tablespoons to my cupcakes - after reading the recipe three times thinking it was a lot to add. It was in fact 3 teaspoons but I had a bit of a special moment and spent most of the day wondering what I had done so wrong lol. Have never made that mistake again :-)
ReplyDeleteMine was yesterday. I had an order for cake pops and chocolate cupcakes. Packaged them up nicely and they were sat ready to go. I quickly ran upstairs to get my coat to come down an fine by 1 year old using the cake pops as drumsticks and battering the boxes of cupcakes! Good job I made double!! Cheeky monkey!! X
ReplyDeleteI had spent 2 days making my sons Tom and Jerry themed cake including 4" figures of Tom, Jerry and Spike with a backboard of the house. 5 minutes before bedtime my sons decided to wrestle and bumped into the table. In what felt like slow motion the table collapsed taking with it the cake leaving a pile of mush on the floor. The party was at 11 the next morning (mothers day too).
ReplyDeleteI ended up staying up all night baking and redecorating it ready for the party.
I was making a wedding cake for a friend who wanted to pick it up themselves and take it to the venue. It was 4 stacked tiers with caricatures of them on top. The box was so big that it wouldn't fit into the boot of their car. We ended up (rather reluctantly by me) taking it out of the box and just having it free standing in the boot. It was a hot day and the cake was in direct heat under the window of the boot.
ReplyDeleteI had a phone call 30 minutes later from the bride and groom in distress as the cake had completely collapsed. I felt sick, what was I going to do? Luckily the wedding wasn't until the next day so we planned to go and buy some plain cakes from M & S and I would make more characters.
As it was my fault for letting the cake go like that, I decided that it was only fair to make her another one, even if it meant staying up all night.
So that's what I did. I started remaking the cake at 9pm and finished at 10 am. I allowed myself 10 minutes sleep then got in the car and drove for 2 hours with the cakes (all separate this time). I was so stressed that I went into the back of someone else's car. I was more worried about the cake than the state of the cars. Luckily cake was undamaged so carried on to venue and set up cake just in time for guests arriving.
I learnt so much from this event. Never ever transport more than 2 tiers ready stacked and also, it is possible to remake a 4 tier wedding cake in 1 day....... The bride laughs about it now and is quite proud that she is one of very few people who can say their wedding cake was made on the day of their wedding.....
Definitely the most stressful thing that's ever happened to me...
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DeleteMy biggest diaster was when i got the kitchen all set up with my toddler to make our gingerbread house for christmas, to then realise i had no ginger! we went to the supermarket but they had no ginger either!
ReplyDeletethe "gingerbread" house tasted awful but looked pretty :D
My biggest diaster was when i was baking a cake for a family member and my cooker broke half way through baking the cake. So i had to buy a new cooker and baked the cake a week later. So it was a belated birthday cake. The belated cake did look good but i felt bad as it was a week late.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest disaster has to be the sunken chocolate cake! I was making the cake for my bestie, but was at my mums and only had enough ingredients for one cake...so I had to pile on the fondant flowers I had made and hope no one noticed!! x
ReplyDeleteDropping my sisters wedding cake!! It remained in the tin but it cracked Managed to rescue it and once iced couldnt tell.
ReplyDeletei left my partner to take my cupcakes out of the oven as i had to go out, when i got home 1 hr later i asked him if he remembered to take them out, by the look on his face it was clear to see he had forgot he ran to the kitchen where a bellow of smoke left the oven and i was greeted with cremated cakes. never again lol
ReplyDeleteBiggest disaster was this week. It was my first wedding cake and a friend had told me to try a different brand of icing as she thought it was really good. Cut a long story short, it wasn't good. I spent 2 days trying to ice 2 cakes. Spent £12 on icing that went straight in the bin. Thankfully I got it done as I went back to my normal icing, but yes disaster with not much sleep for me!
ReplyDeletepicture the scene... beautifully decorated cupcakes,a nice comfy front seat in the car, and an idiot cutting across you.. yep.. my cake box was rather colourful after that sudden brake! :/
ReplyDeleteMy biggest disaster was years ago, when I had only just started making cakes. A friend asked me if I would make her a policeman cake for her husband's birthday. I decided it would be nice if the policeman was standing in an 'Evenin' All' kind of way. All went well until just before my friend was due to pick the cake up...when I was packing it into a box. The flipping cake fell over. Luckily it stayed on the board. All I could do was leave it lying on it's back...and called it a 'Sleeping Policeman'! It went down very well in spite of the 'accident'!
ReplyDeleteI know it's not cake, but my biggest baking disasters are always with bread..Once I forgot to put the little stirrer bit in the bottom of my bread maker, and ended up with a gloopy sticky mess, and another time I forgot to add any yeast! Made a lovely paperweight though ;-) x
ReplyDeleteWould love to try these. My biggest disaster was making a real like handbag and came down in the morning and cake had split in half all over the table. Needed some smart thinking and baking:)
ReplyDeleteMy big disaster happened last weekend when I was making 50 vanilla cupcakes with a swirl of Italian meringue buttercream and a glazed fanned strawberry on top for my bestfriends daughters wedding favors. Keen to ensure the cakes where really fresh I decided to make them the very morning of the wedding. I've made this buttercream a hundred times before and people always love it as it is so creamy and not too sweet but for some reason I can't fathom it just would not cream together, I persisted thinking it is a big batch it will take a little longer but it just would not work. My hubby had to dash down to the shops for more ingredients and my sister was called to bring the new mixer her boyfriend had proudly told me he brought her the week before to get it done double quick, she turned up ten minutes later with a blender bless her. Anyway I went into over drive with two batches on the go at the same time, there was syrup boiling, eggs whipping and my thermometer didn't know whether it was coming or going I was like speedy Gonzalez on speed at one point my mixer started throwing out buttercream in all directions it was in my hair and up the walls but I couldn't stop with half an hour left before we had to leave for the wedding. Finally success and I piped buttercream onto the cupcakes hubby added the strawberries and we individually boxed 50 cupcakes in ten minutes. I got ready in ten minutes giving up the idea of the gorgeous hair style I'd planned sponging buttercream out of my hair just minutes before we left and I was still ready before my teenage daughter who'd spent 3 hours pruning herself. We arrived 5 minutes before the bride with me very close to a breakdown and I did have a moment half way through the ceremony when it occurred to me if I still had buttercream somewhere in my hair I'd look like a mad version of Cameron Diaz in there's something about Mary but the wedding was stunning and the cakes where loved by all, a day to remember for sooo many reasons LOL x
ReplyDeleteBiggest cake disaster to date did not qash out a bowl properly aftet making garlic dip, then made a sponge cake and you guessed it, it tasted of garlic !
ReplyDeleteBaking and delivering '60th birthday' cakes to the birthday girl...who was in fact turning 50...if looks could kill...
ReplyDeleteA Madeira cake so heavy even the birds wont eat it!!!!
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