Any Home Bakers Here?

[ronott1]

For me I have a desire to make a special Easter cake! I have a bunny shaped cake pan that gave me the inspiration. And I've never used it because I'm kind of at a loss on how to decorate it. I'm not really good at piping.

So I thought, if I cover it with fondant and cut out the shapes of the eyes/ears with colored fondant, it might be cute. Things that I think up and envision don't always materialize the way I'd hope though...to be continued I guess LOL!

Bunny cakes are easy! You bake two 9 inch rounds. Leave one round. The second is cut with a curve and those pieces become ears with a bow tie from the middle.

Use a butter cream for decorating recipe for the frosting and use a bowl scraper to apply the frosting.

You should be able to get by with a very simple piping to make the colors.

From what I can tell, fondant is not easy to work with so practicing up on piping would be a plus

http://homanathome.com/2016/03/bunny-cut-up-cake/

 

[ronott1]

And what is so wrong with regular frosting?

Yes! I like cakes that taste good and look good

 

[ThreeOfSeven]

Bunny cakes are easy! You bake two 9 inch rounds. Leave one round. The second is cut with a curve and those pieces become ears with a bow tie from the middle.

Use a butter cream for decorating recipe for the frosting and use a bowl scraper to apply the frosting.

You should be able to get by with a very simple piping to make the colors.

From what I can tell, fondant is not easy to work with so practicing up on piping would be a plus

http://homanathome.com/2016/03/bunny-cut-up-cake/

OMG! I want to do that! ... Just had to check the calendar. I get back from a trip in late March, so, yes, it's on my agenda now! LOL

 

[pennyJo1960]

Think maybe I could even do that

 

[ronott1]

OMG! I want to do that! ... Just had to check the calendar. I get back from a trip in late March, so, yes, it's on my agenda now! LOL

My two older DDs share the same birthday in march. One year for their birthday I made a cake like that. It was so easy! and a big hit with the toddlers

 

[Susan Dye]

Make the recipe so that the final rise is in the evening. Put a cloth over the top of the vessel used to raise the bread and then into a plastic bag. Pop the dough into the fridge until then next morning.

Next morning, take the dough out of the fridge, pre heat the oven to the temp in the recipe and when ready, pop in the dough--out of the bag and the cloth removed of course.

If the bread still is not sour enough, you can buy some sour salt(citric acid) and add halt to 3\4 teaspoon at the point in the recipe that salt is added

I am assuming you are using a recipe that does not add baking yeast. If the recipe you are using has yeast in it, find one that does not have it!

Thanks. The recipe calls for yeast if using unfed starter. Someone asked about overnighting the dough on the King Arthur Flour website and was told rye flour doesn't do well refrigerated overnight. But, you know, I might just try it anyway. It's not so much the flavor I'm having a problem with, it's the crumb/density of the finished product. No air wholes .

 

[ronott1]

Thanks. The recipe calls for yeast if using unfed starter. Someone asked about overnighting the dough on the King Arthur Flour website and was told rye flour doesn't do well refrigerated overnight. But, you know, I might just try it anyway. It's not so much the flavor I'm having a problem with, it's the crumb/density of the finished product. No air wholes .

Yeast raised dough can't go overnight in the fridge because it will over proof. Sourdough does not do that though. Use fed starter and try it overnight without baking yeast in it.

Let us know how it works for you.

 

[bruceha2000]

My two older DDs share the same birthday in march. One year for their birthday I made a cake like that. It was so easy! and a big hit with the toddlers

That's digging in the annals of history!
Two kids with the same Bday, that must have been fun. "Sorry honey, we can't have cake tonight, Mommy is busy having your new sister."

 

[ThreeOfSeven]

My two older DDs share the same birthday in march. One year for their birthday I made a cake like that. It was so easy! and a big hit with the toddlers

Yeah, wish I had kids around for my baking. DH will like it and maybe share it with friends at Fire Dept or something like that.

 

[Clearwater Chicken]

I love to bake