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bobajobrob

Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #25 on: 10 December, 2008, 06:56:51 pm »
I found another picture of a cake. Not great quality, but one of our favourites.




The cake looks marvelous quality! Is that a pile of snowman droppings?

rogerzilla

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #26 on: 10 December, 2008, 07:33:50 pm »
We'll have to have an almond finger instead...
:D

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #27 on: 10 December, 2008, 07:38:59 pm »
I found another picture of a cake. Not great quality, but one of our favourites.

...image...


The cake looks marvelous quality! Is that a pile of snowman droppings?

I think it's a load of balls! ;D
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RichForrest

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #28 on: 14 December, 2008, 09:09:40 pm »
It's not an xmas cake but the eldest is 17 today, his mum made him this one,
He came off his bike a couple of months ago, slight fracture on his hip and had to go up the hospital daily for factor 8 injections.




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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #29 on: 14 December, 2008, 09:14:04 pm »
It's not an xmas cake but the eldest is 17 today

Happy Birthday to young mister Forrest from all of us on YACF.  Hope he is better.

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #30 on: 14 December, 2008, 10:35:09 pm »
It's not an xmas cake but the eldest is 17 today,



That is one talented Mum. He's going to love that photo twenty years from now.  :)

fuzzy

Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #31 on: 15 December, 2008, 07:35:38 pm »
Rich,

Factor 8? 'A' sufferer?

No.1 Son is a 'B' sufferer, though so far, has not required factor injections.

RichForrest

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #32 on: 15 December, 2008, 07:47:34 pm »
Rich,

Factor 8? 'A' sufferer?

No.1 Son is a 'B' sufferer, though so far, has not required factor injections.

Yes his grandad also, his mum is a carrier.
Has had to have it every time he gets a bad bruise, then the doc's kept asking about the bruises as if we'd done them ::-)

fuzzy

Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #33 on: 22 December, 2008, 09:57:36 am »
Thats how we found out No.1 was a sufferer. Shins got banged to buggery riding a bike, School thought we may have caused them. Summonsed to the Dr.s for checks. Phone call 2 hours later with the news. We had had bruises investigated due to our concerns a few times but they only did platelette counts.

fuzzy

Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #34 on: 22 December, 2008, 09:58:31 am »
SiL does us a cake every crombo. here is this years model-



Nom Nom Nom :thumbsup:

David Martin

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #35 on: 22 December, 2008, 12:32:23 pm »
Rich,

Factor 8? 'A' sufferer?

No.1 Son is a 'B' sufferer, though so far, has not required factor injections.

Not sure they did recombinant IX? VIII has been around for a while.

(Declares an interest - did my PhD in Ted Tuddenhams lab, one of the key people in understanding how FVIII works.  PhD was on FVII/TF though, a step sideways when it comes to clotting)
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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #36 on: 22 December, 2008, 12:40:48 pm »
And on the cake front, I did a Delia Dundee cake (with plenty of whisky) but put the cake tin in a stock pot to bake. Set it going before heading into work so it should be out of the oven now (if TODM remembered).

..d
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fuzzy

Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #37 on: 22 December, 2008, 01:39:59 pm »
Rich,

Factor 8? 'A' sufferer?

No.1 Son is a 'B' sufferer, though so far, has not required factor injections.

Not sure they did recombinant IX? VIII has been around for a while.

(Declares an interest - did my PhD in Ted Tuddenhams lab, one of the key people in understanding how FVIII works.  PhD was on FVII/TF though, a step sideways when it comes to clotting)

It is available. No.1 son has Haemophillia B and when he was a sproglet, we used to collect supplies from the hospital to take with us when travelling abroad.

David Martin

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #38 on: 23 December, 2008, 12:11:12 am »
As of today I has cake..

Delia Dundee cake, almost.

no currants (well, they had run off and hidden at the back of the cupboard, only to crawl out later, point and snigger) so I used sultanas. As there is a general ban on sucrose and glucose in the house, candied peel and glace cherries (shouldn't put cherries in a dundee cake anyhow) were also verboten, so replaced with diced apricots. All liberally soused overnight with some not very good whisky.

As per the baking, this was done in a stock pot for about an hour longer than the recipe said (3.5 as opposed to 2.5) as experience tells me that is the best. If you want an evenly cooked, unburnt and moist cake, cooking it in a stock pot is the way to go.

I hav espent the last hour making marzipan which is resting in the fridge. It is very sticky (fructose is very hygroscopic) so some cornflour may be needed to get it to roll out OK.

Looking nice anyhow and smells good. The eagle eyed will notice that the mice (large, two legged ones) have been at the 'loose' fruit on the top.

More piccies as I decorate it.

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David Martin

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #39 on: 23 December, 2008, 09:40:25 am »
And now with Marzipan Almond icing. The cake, as per tradition, is upside down as that gives a nice thin layer of marzipan with square edges across the top. The middle may look a bit dished - it is flat - the picture is slightly misleading because of the cornflour.

I will tidy up in a minute, honest.

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #40 on: 23 December, 2008, 11:19:07 pm »
Just finished...


Here is the cake. 14 months old!  :thumbsup:



And here is it iced




from the top:




Exhausting work!

It is simpler than it looks.

Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #41 on: 24 December, 2008, 06:10:59 pm »
The combined efforts of Mrs fin, me and Delia


David Martin

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #42 on: 24 December, 2008, 08:06:29 pm »
Icing was a disaster. Fructose does not behave like sucrose. In particular it is hygroscopic, so the icing pulled water out of the air,  gradually became more liquid and flowed back off the cake.. off the cakeboard and onto the work surface.

So no photo.

..d

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hellymedic

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #43 on: 24 December, 2008, 08:11:42 pm »
Oh dear!

Jaded

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #44 on: 24 December, 2008, 10:58:25 pm »
I've had a cake do that and so I'd love some photos!

It was like global warming...
It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #45 on: 25 December, 2008, 08:46:04 am »
I've made a Christmas Sponge Cake  ;D


David Martin

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #46 on: 25 December, 2008, 10:22:03 pm »
I've had a cake do that and so I'd love some photos!

It was like global warming...

It is quite dramatic. I should have realised that any compound that can magically dissolve itself with water in the air is a bad thing to ice with.

Whilst waiting, do help yourself to a mince pie.



The fruit was well steeped in whisky and much of that flavour remains with the cake being very moist.

Anyway, here is the droopy icing - taking on the appearance of a slightly watered down bad emulsion paint.

Just emulsion paint that will never dry out.


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Jaded

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #47 on: 31 December, 2012, 01:28:08 am »
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #48 on: 03 January, 2013, 08:17:46 pm »

Jaded

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Re: Forum Christmas Cakes
« Reply #49 on: 03 January, 2013, 08:23:05 pm »
Ethnically diverse audience.
It is simpler than it looks.