How would i go about creating a fairy toadstool house type cake?

[Beauregard]

I'm guessing you'd need a cylindrical bit and a half sphere bit. Use a bowl/pudding basin for the half sphere. Sorry that's all I can help with lol

yes thought so
Could this be made by my purchasing lots of slabs of cake,swiss rolls etc?

I guess you would have to be v careful about the top beeing top heavy.....I am sure I saw picks of one on here though once so someone has definately done it...

Or is that wishful thinking,lol.

Feed everyone at Party Magic mushrooms and tell them the cake is in shape of a Fairy Toadstool....should work fine with minimum effort on your part.....

On a serious note - you could use a ready made chocolate or white sponge roll as the trunk, add ready to roll icing, decorate accordingly - a door, window etc. For the top, you could make a round sponge, shape to a semi circle, fit on top of log (laying down flat - wouldn't work standing up) and then spread with jam/butter cream and add ready to roll icing on the top - colour it accordingly.....

Or you could make a round cake and cut out the shape so you look down on the side view IYSWIM.

Thanks
I would like to do a stand up one though,i had the idea of using foam mushrooms and lollipops as flowers outside and a kind of sweetie path leading up to the house.

[crazed]

I know someone put pics of a toadstool cake on their profile and we all ooo'd and arrrr'd

Have never made a birthday cake [nervous laugh]
i can bake muffins though

Ermm......find pic on net...take to cake shop and request...pay...go home happy and not stressed!!!

ooh i wonder who it was ?

lol

it was Sassy...

Aha she lives this way too!

I am sure I have one in one of my books - hang on

I have too many cake books

Yes - here it is. In this one a fairy toadstool. She carves 2 bowl shaped cakes (2 * 2 pint bowls). Do you want more (or you could buy the book )?

you make muffins - excellent....how the feck do I get all the flour mixed in to the wet mixture without overmixing??!

Sassy's was v impressive....she is not teh most prolific poster though unfortunately. You could try Cating her if she is still a member.

Crooks-Didn't realise that you could overmix
I just bung it in and mix.

Muffins: Think folding, rather than mixing

Pelvic: or indeed if you care to meet me in Worcester I could lend you the book - or there is a fab cake/ cake supplies shop on the Tything who would probably make you one.

She name changed recently SMS.

tons of pics here I think the common theme is don;t make your stem too small - definitely wider than swiss roll...

Thanks Stealthsqiggle would that be 2 pudding bowls?-Whereabouts are you then?
and where is the Tything?

Thanks hatwoman so girth is the way to go,now why didn't i find those pics?

top left looks good - more of a cake with a toadstool on it, rather than a toadstool-shaped cake, emminently sensible imho

You do the base in a bowl and use a regular round caketin for the top. It doesn't sound right because you think the top should be more of a dome but it works. I did one for my niece. We did the top with red icing and put white chocolate buttons on it and iced a door on the side of the stump bit. It was a triumph.