making a 3D Cake At Home

making a 3D Cake At Home

Making a 3D cake at home can be as straightforward or complicated as you like. For my daughter's birthday, she wanted a dinosaur cake, and I didn't think the straightforward pan cake with a photograph or figurines would do. I researched separate cake styles, pans, ideas and came up with building my own cake.

Using straightforward box cake mix, with a few tweaks to make it stand up to a lot of icing and a minute imagination, I was able to come up with a real hit for her birthday celebration. It all comes down to cutting basic round cake layers and I make a rectangle pan cake and have found that the small egg shaped pan works very well to add some shaping to the cake for legs, facial features etc. A crumb coat layer is important in building the cake and using the icing to stick the layers together.

Banana Cake

I for real get something to look at for the shape like a toy or photograph for inspiration and draw out a sketch of how I am going to use the cut pieces and put them together on my cake board. I then for real put the pieces together and move them colse to until I get exactly the scale and shape that I want.

When that is done, glue them together with the icing and get ready to frost, which is the most time intriguing aspect. Using a basic butter cream frosting recipe, frosting bag and basic tips (star tip and round tip), color gels for coloring and a lot of patience you can bring your shape to life. There are many resources online for inspiration and help.

making a 3D Cake At Home

making Raisin Cake

making Raisin Cake

Raisin cake is best served at tea time. The ingredients used in this cake recipe are similar to those of any other plain cake like fruit cake, marble cake etc. The key points in production a soft raisin cake is to use the right quantity of ingredients and consequent the exact steps as shown in this recipe. The preparing time is not much as it regularly takes a maximum of 60 minutes from beating to baking. This raisin cake can be served to a maximum of 6 people. When production for more habitancy just increase the quantity of ingredients maintaining the exact ratio.

Ingredients Required:
4 eggs
8 oz butter (softened)
8 oz sugar
8 oz plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 drops of vanilla essence
Pinch of salt
1 cup raisins
1/2 cup milk

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Cooking Instructions:
The first step in production a plain cake batter is to beat butter so that it becomes smooth. It is best to use softened butter as it requires less time and attempt to make it smooth. While beating, gently increase the speed of beater in this process. Keep beating butter with sugar until it gets a creamy texture. Now gently add egg yolks and beat well to mix evenly. In a cut off bowl, beat egg whites on high speed for 2-3 minutes to form a foamy texture . All the time beat egg whites just before adding in the batter otherwise it separates itself into liquid and foam and your cake might become hard. Mix egg whites into the combination and make fine plane batter. Add few drops of vanilla essence as it will take off any unpleasant smell of egg. Mix separately, all the dry ingredients i.e flour, baking powder, salt and sift them together so that all the air escapes from the combination and they mix evenly. Using spatula, add and mix dry combination to the batter. You can also use a beater for this purpose but you will have to keep its speed very low because we just want the ingredients to be mixed together. Now add half cup of milk, raisins and mix using any flat spatula. In a convenient size baking pan, pour the batter and bake in preheated oven for 30-40 minutes at 180 degree centigrade. It is not indispensable that the baking time remains same as mentioned above. It may be more or less because depending upon the working of your oven. The best way to check the cake is when you start sensing its smell. At this point, insert a knife from top till deep down the lowest of your cake. If it comes out clear and dry then your raisin came is ready.

making Raisin Cake