Anybody have a cake recipe like bakeries use?

[Mono~rail]

I certainly didn't mean it in a ridiculing way. Hope you didn't take it that way. It just struck me as a little funny, that's all, but I DO know what you mean.

I just wasn't sure what was funny. I thought perhaps you were making fun of me.

I think (someone mentioned this above, I can't remember who though) I'll have the Kroger bakery make the layer cake for the Snow White doll cake's "pedestal" and ice it with white. I'll just make the doll cake with the pan that MOMTOMOOTOO is sending me and decorate the doll and add icing embellishments to the pedestal.

For the castle cake, I'll get them to make the 6" and 8" layer cakes and ice them white then I can stack them myself and put the kit on and decorate with the icing!

 

[Pea-n-Me]

The bakeries in my town don't have the doll cake in their books, and I've asked about them making the castle cake if I give them the kit and they said that they "can't" do it.

Keep asking around. Talk to the decorators themselves; bring pictures, and the doll and the kit. Neither cake is particularly difficult to do for an experienced decorator. You might even be able to get a supermarket bakery to do it, the biggest difficulty being they aren't sure what to charge you. Keep asking.

 

[MosMom]

You can go to Gordon's Food Service and buy bakery wedding cake mix.

 

[Imzadi]

I just wasn't sure what was funny. I thought perhaps you were making fun of me.

Sorry, I probably used the wrong smilie.
I should have used a wink or (which got taken off the front page) instead of the . It wasn't that funny to me, just ironic, and I see now how using: could have been misconstrued as poking fun. My bad!

 

[cryssi]

Ummm, I'm not sure what's funny, but here are the cakes that I'm planning to make. The bakeries in my town don't have the doll cake in their books, and I've asked about them making the castle cake if I give them the kit and they said that they "can't" do it.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1269637348061272392tmWRyv

http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/novelties/princess/princess.htm

those are cool...you probably want a cake that is denser rather than fluffy for those, though, to hold the weight. Probably a box of pudding and an extra egg will suffice if you don't want to get too crazy...

 

[Pea-n-Me]

The doll cake is a homemade version of the Barbie cake. The woman who did the cake used a heart shaped pan for the base, then baked some cake in a pyrex bowl and used that for the dress bottom, putting the doll inside the mound, then decorating the whole thing. That one's fairly simple, but it would require you practice piping using a pastry bag and different tips first.

The other is more complex as far as decorating goes, requiring piping the doors yourself as well as the fine lines. It would look best if someone pretty skilled made it, though you could probably do that one yourself too if you really had to.

There are a lot of people who do cakes out of their homes these days, maybe you could look in the local paper to see if you could call one of them - I'm sure they'd welcome the business. If you look and see where they offer Wilton decorating classes, you may be able to hook up with someone there who could do them for you as well. I still say keep looking around. The bakery I mentioned in the first post said they would definitely do them for you if you came in and asked and supplied the doll and kit.

 

[Mono~rail]

The bakery I mentioned in the first post said they would definitely do them for you if you came in and asked and supplied the doll and kit.

I went back and looked but I don't see a certain bakery mentioned in any of your posts.

Did you live down here before moving to MA?

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Oops, sorry, I should have said my second post. And no, I'm a MA native, but what I meant was that this bakery I was referring to - with the large cake business - would be one that would do it for you, meaning I believe you could find one down your way (wherever that is) who would do it for you also.

Heck, I wish I could just do the darn cakes for you myself.

 

[Robinrs]

Wow, I'm HUNGRY!!! I'm printing off recipes as we speak!!!

I make a buttercream frosting MINUS the Crisco that is lick the bowl delicious. My dear departed Mom made it only on holidays. I stole her recipe and it's sooooo good.

1 stick of butter (room temperature)
1 box of confectioner's sugar
Approx 1/4 cup evaporated milk
Vanilla (REAL) to taste

Cream the butter first. Add the conf sugar and evap milk while beating. Add more sugar to make it stiffer or more milk to make it softer. Add vanilla last and mix in for a minute to taste.

This can make even the worse cake taste good!!! I put it on cupcakes, cakes, you can even pipe it to make it beautiful and it's sooooo simple.

 

[Mono~rail]

Oops, sorry, I should have said my second post. And no, I'm a MA native, but what I meant was that this bakery I was referring to - with the large cake business - would be one that would do it for you, meaning I believe you could find one down your way (wherever that is) who would do it for you also.

Heck, I wish I could just do the darn cakes for you myself.

I know! They look like loads of fun to make don't they!

Here in our town we don't have any independent bakeries - just a Kroger, Wal-Mart, Market Basket (a chain of grocery stores down here in Southwest LA and South TX), and a Brookshire's (another small chain here in LA and TX).

I saw the castle cake on display at an Albertson's in Baton Rouge almost 2 years ago. There are 2 Albertson's in Lake Charles which is nearby but the cake isn't in their books anymore.

I emailed my friend (who does her son's b'day cakes) and she doesn't think we can do the castle. It looks to complicated with all the fine details that make it so beautiful.

I want to have these cakes because MOMTOMOOTOO has sent me the dress pan and ClarabelleCowFan has sent me the kit of plastic pieces for the castle cake.

For DD14's next b'day I want to make her an iPod cake. I can't remember where I saw it - maybe on Ace of Cakes on food network. I know mine won't look as good as their's but I'm pretty sure i can do it well enough to still look nice. I used to make cakes for her class parties when she was in elementary school so I know how to do the edge piping and the star tip piping (like on the doll cake). It has been a while, but it was fairly easy from what I remember. The kids always made a big deal over them!

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I know I want to use icing like bakeries use

These buttercream recipes sound fab, but the OP did say she wanted to use the type of icing that bakeries use. And many bakeries use Crisco (or other shortening), as it makes the frosting a little more stiff and "workable" for decorating purposes, not to mention the fact that butter melts at 80 degrees, so if your butter-only cake is in a setting with a temp higher than that, there go your decorations.

 

[MyGoofy26]

Ummm, I'm not sure what's funny, but here are the cakes that I'm planning to make. The bakeries in my town don't have the doll cake in their books, and I've asked about them making the castle cake if I give them the kit and they said that they "can't" do it.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1269637348061272392tmWRyv

http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/novelties/princess/princess.htm

We were looking at that Princess one for my cousin's birthday this year. While I was working at Macy's seasonally, I saw they have a castle bundt pan. . . very cute.

This is the same one we had Castle Bundt Pan

 

[scarlett873]

While my recipe is yummy, it can be a little on the softer side of icing. The only way to stiffen the icing up without adding more sugar is to put it into the fridge for a bit...not too long or else you won't be able to do much with it until it softens up!

The wilton icings, while pretty sweet, they have a pretty good decorating consistency.

You may also check with your local stores...they may sell you some of their icing to use! I know that my local Sam's Club will do that...

 

[sumrmist]

using cake flour makes a HUGE difference in the texture of the cake. It is more refined and therefore a fluffier cake. How about buying the cake from the bakery undecorated and icing and decorating it yourself?

 

[mytwotinks]

I saw a show once where a very famous baker was answering the question, "What makes your cakes so amazing?" She said that people often rush the mixing process of the cakes. She said for high end wedding cakes, she often allows them to mix on her mixer for an hour. She said the longer the cake mixes, the lighter and fluffier it will be.

In High School cooking class we were told that if you over mix once you put the flour in it will be tough.

 

[disneyaggie]

This all sounds so yummy!

 

[binny]

Ok I made a pepsi cake tonight and did the buttercream frosting that was posted earlier. Both were a HUGE hit!

Thanks for the frosting recipe!

DH looked at me like I had 2 heads while I made the cake but he loved it

 

[disney4us2002]

What is a pepsi cake? I've heard of a 7-up cake but never pepsi.

Anyone care to tell me how to change any of the buttercream recipes listed into chocolate buttercream? I don't like chocolate jar frosting but my family likes yellow cake with choc frosting rather than vanilla.

 

[Soubrette]

For chocolate buttercream, melt and cool 12 oz of semi-sweet chocolate and add to the vanilla buttercream icing to taste.

 

[binny]

Pepsi cake is the same idea but with chocolate cake. You just add a can or so of Pepsi or coke or Dr Pepper anything but diet, to a chocolate cake mix and then mix it and bake it you ont have to add anything else no eggs no oil. Its really very good.