Suggestions for large birthday cake please!

[olimpia]

Hiya
I need to bake a cake for 20 eight-year olds next Saturday. Has anyone got any suggestions (and recipe if possible) of a cake that would definitely please the majority?
Also, in terms of equipment, would I be better off buying two large sandwich tins (if I make something with a filling) or one with removable button (and then slice the cake in half to fill it)?

Primrose123, that surprises me, i' m from Blackwood.

My profile pic is of me and my daughter on facebook if thats any help?

Primrose123, gonna set a facebook page for people to see some of the recent cakes i've made, have to wait till tomorrow to do it though.

Hi all!

I've now set up a Facebook page for my cakes; you can find it at www.facebook.com/nannycookscakes.

Love, Nanny Cook!x

I tried to join your Facebook page but the link doesn't work. Can you repost it please?

I made this but in two tiers for Jubilee and it worked fantastic - made it orange flavour - you could cover this in chocolate.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2195636/fruity-flag-traybake

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1276636/doublethelove-chocolate-cake

I'm in Cwmbran - just down the road from Blackwood!

olimpia type into the facebook search bar, Nannycookscakes, someone on another thread just told me she saw my cakes.

Hello Bacon, my fellow Welsh baking buddy, what part of Cwmbran are you from?

Nannycook - What they think is posh - Henllys (haha...not!). I'm on a farm.

We reference to cake tins I would highly highly recommend the Silverwood brand. I use a square tin that has dividers which I use oftern - great buy!

For a large cake your better off using a square/oblong cake as your more likely to use the tin again - say if you buy the one noted above. Buying a large 25cm or so tin is going to get little use over a square adjustable one.

Bacon, very posh indeed. I'm looking for a new tin, where do i find theSilverwood brand?

Hi Nannycook, your cakes look great. I really love the red white and blue ones. How did you get that effect?

I'm not far from you either, I'm in Neath!

8 eggs in my roasting tin was what I used for 24 brownies.

More recently I've acquired a large shallow flower shaped tin. Six eggs I think.

Good grief, we could all meet up and have our very own Welsh bake off ha ha. the too toned effect is really easy, too ways you could do it, either paint a stripe of paste( not gel as to thick) inside the length of a piping bag, turn the bag around and paint the other side, then add your buttercream, remember to pipe abit out first for the colours to take hold, or you can colour your buttercream in different colours and put in side by side, i used the painting method, i found it worked ok for me so i'll stick with that i think.
I called those cupcakes my jubilee cakes, everyone thought they were fab as they had jam in the middle too.