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DD fancies a 'cheese' cake for her birthday

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KatyMac · 19/11/2018 11:28

The rest of us want cake so I am buying both!!

Can anyone reccomend a small 'cheese' cake without stilton? Or can I build one somehow?

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KatyMac · 19/11/2018 11:46

Aarrgghh & I am too late for the one at Tesco as her party is on Sunday!

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tattychicken · 19/11/2018 11:52

It should be quite straightforward to build one I would have thought? Then you've got the freedom to pick exactly the cheeses you want. On a nice platter, decorate with tumbling grapes/figs/fruits, it will look lovely.

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KatyMac · 19/11/2018 11:58

Which supermarket does a lot of little round cheeses? I can see me going round all of them with a tape measure!!

& I have left it too late to get a nice cake from M&S too

Buggeration this iurgery/menopause crap has left me disorganised and a disaster!

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KatyMac · 19/11/2018 12:01

I could just cry - I always make her cake but I don't think I can this year

Buggeration

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WhoisyourDaddyandwhatdoeshedo · 19/11/2018 12:03

I adore this idea, have you got a wholsealers memebrship at all? or any market stalls?
what ever is left over could last til xmas given that fact its November xx

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Andtheresaw · 19/11/2018 12:11

Go to your local cheese shop. Choose while you can see them. Avoid stilton.
probably too risky to do online as the diameters aren't generally published and I'm presuming you don't want anything as big as a wedding cake?

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Andtheresaw · 19/11/2018 12:13
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Lwmommy · 19/11/2018 12:13

How about a ring of the xmassy cheese trucklers then a cooked camembert in the middle with a selection of crusty breads to dunk?

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Andtheresaw · 19/11/2018 12:14

and you can buy a nice cake off the shelf in some waitrose.
Good luck

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tattychicken · 19/11/2018 12:36

Sainsbury's deli counter has lots of round cheeses. Or you could use 4 x similar sized "triangle" cheeses put together to make a circle. Not Laughing Cow though...

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tattychicken · 19/11/2018 12:38

Getting a cheddar will be tricky though...

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tattychicken · 19/11/2018 12:48

This website has round cheddars and shows the diameter too which is useful:
www.houseofcheese.co.uk/acatalog/Whole-Cheese-Rounds-suitable-for-cheese-wedding-cakes-p1.html

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KatyMac · 19/11/2018 12:52

Or dairylea triangles?

Thanks guys I was feeling reply down as it's her 21st

DH is going to take me shopping later to see what we can find cheesewise

And she is away all-day on Sat so maybe I can make a cake

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kateandme · 19/11/2018 14:31

do you have a free half hour on fri you could awlasy do it in stages so have the cake cooked and cooled(even freeze if sooner) then decorate on the morning of or day before

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KatyMac · 19/11/2018 15:04

She is away from Sat am to Sun at about 2 for a party at 4 so that should be enough time

I'll get ready roll icing a!nd make a stencil now - Hamilton cake here we come!

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anniehm · 19/11/2018 15:46

Morrison's had their Christmas cheeses in today - whole Stilton, whole Camembert I saw, you may struggle on a third

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KatyMac · 19/11/2018 16:01

Well there are babybel, mini camembert......

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AnotherOriginalUsername · 19/11/2018 16:03

Where are you based? We had a cheese "cake" for our wedding instead of a wedding cake and it went down very well. We used it as the centrepiece of our buffet (DIY ploughman's buffet) and bought our cheeses direct from a local dairy

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KatyMac · 19/11/2018 16:07

Boursin is between those two,

German smoked cheese is round too & this too I can do this!!

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KatyMac · 19/11/2018 16:08

Thanks another her party is quite small

But I really do think I can make one & add grapes like tatty said

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Gaijin1 · 19/11/2018 16:29

Take a look at Pleesecakes on instagram. They do Cheesecakes and 'Cheese' cakes. You could get ideas to make your own. They look fab!

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KatyMac · 19/11/2018 18:37

Yum they look lovely!

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ChippyMinton · 19/11/2018 18:42

Have you got a Waitrose with a cheese counter? When I did one for DH’s birthday the staff were happy to help. They cut round slices off the cheddar and Stilton (IIRC) rather than the usual wedge shapes, and recommended some smaller round cheeses for the rest, i think a Camembert and a cute little goat cheese for the top.

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KatyMac · 19/11/2018 20:26

Thanks - this has possibilities

MN to the rescue!

Now mottled icing.....new thread

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