I had the honour of making my godson’s birthday cake for his party this morning. I put on my engineering hat and armed with cake, icing and lollies constructed the cake last night and early this morning.
I must credit some of the success of this cake to our new fridge. A few weeks ago we upgraded from a 250L fridge/freezer to a 520L fridge/freezer and I’m over the moon with all the space we have as I could cool the 3 cakes worth of cake and store the completed cake without any issues. So here is the cake in the fridge. You can also just see my ‘baking’ shelf where all my butter, cream cheese etc is stored – I’m so spoilt!
My car, train, plane (well any vehicle) mad godson LOVED the cake. We arrived to find him in tears and completely covered in the bark from the playground that he had just faceplanted into. As soon as he saw the cake the crying stopped replaced by happy squeels of toot toot. He insisted on driving the train on the track. The cake was large enough to cut and serve from the other side of the cake 😉
And the wreckage… complete with fingers through the icing.
The cake is chocolate with chocolate buttercream icing for the main part. The blue and green icing is fluffy frosting from the womens weekly book or more commonly known as italian meringue. It was fresh so still a little soft. The gold rocks are home made honeycomb left over from the honeycomb icecream cake.
On a side note, we all went to the Ipswich railway museum yesterday. It is a wonderful place for kids (toddlers to us bigger ones) and I highly recommend going while the thomas exhibit is on for any Thomas fans. We now have an annual membership so are looking forward to more fun trips filled.
