so I've just hired a cake tin and now what.......................

[eleanorsmum]

just hired a mickey mouse cake tin for dd 3rd b'day party saturday. raring to go with the making but there's no recipe with it! So i need to work out what volume cake to make? but how???????????????

And anyone got any tips on icing it. its sort of embossed so i guess will be an outline to follow. but any tips much apreciated.

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Don't have the recipe here, but the buttermilk birthday cake in Nigella's domestic goddess book is good for shaped cake moulds. It also helps with proportions. Does anyone have it to hand? I'm at work unfortunately...

It needs to have equal quantity of butter/sugar and flour. It needs all the butter to stop it from sticking. It's better to over estimate how much mixture you beed and use the left over in fairy cakes.

Oh and icing, buy pre-made roll-out icing. If you've got a sugarcraft store near by, they'll have it, otherwise you can order it from Jane Asher's website. They deliver really quickly, so if you called them and asked them to send the stuff today you might be okay. Their spray on non-stick oil is probably made of all sorts of nasties, but is very effective if the cake tin has lots of funny ridges. Melted apricot jam acts as a sort of glue to stick the icing onto the cake. You need a very clean surface so that you don't get crumbs all over your icing. You can roll out the icing into the shape you need then use a sharp knife to cut the right shape. I suppose you could use baking paper to make stencils, but I've always gone freehand for Barbies ballgown (have 2 dds so am now pretty good at doing glitzy barbies up to the waist in icing). It's actually really good fun to do, as long as you don't have a small sticky monster trying to help!

ooh thanks

was going to do roll out icing and then try to paint on details or more bits of roll out coloured and stcuk on.

nigellas domestic godess recipie sounds good will try the internet to find. do you think i should try and cut it in half and fill with buttercream or is that being tooooooooooooo adventurous!

I wouldn't bother cutting it in half - asking for trouble! Also, it'll be so laden with icing by the time you've covered the top that a bit of plain cake underneath will be a blessed relief!

Good luck!

well i've made the cake now and it came out ok ish! some bits stuck to tin but i've peeled them off and stuck them back on with jam! will do white icing today and then start the tricky bits of mr mickey mouse! oh why oh why do we do this to ourselves! Also have pass the parcel to wrap and sandwiches to make! i feel a late night coming tom eve!