Birthday Cake Making

It was my granddaughter's 4th birthday on Thursday. She had her party on Saturday and I helped her mum decorate the cake.

We had some pretty big shoes to fill, as my husband, Pete is the cake decorator in our family.  Last year, Annika was really into Peppa Pig, however, we decided that the 'pig in mud' cake was near enough, so Pete made this for her third birthday. Unfortunately he isn't home this time around, so it was left to Bernie and myself - oh dear. Neither of us are particularly arty or creative.

Annika chose the picture out of a very old Woman's Weekly Birthday Cake cookbook - a house. I'm not going to show you what the picture looked like, as ours isn't really anything like it - except for the 'smarties' on the roof. We modernised it - well, that's our excuse and we are sticking to it.



Construction began with
 cutting the loaf tin cake into two then cutting the rounded top off - those two slices made up the roof. We used the cut off rounded piece to prop the roof up. Then skewers were inserted to hold it together.  Then the fun part began - spreading the icing - we cheated and bought pottles of ready made butter icing - much easier and quicker than making it ourselves, and we could guarantee the consistency.  Mini trees were made up 'gluing' icing flowers on top of little chocolate coated finger biscuits and sticking them to the icing around the base. It looked a bit bare, so we made some green icing, put an 'edging' around it with snake lollies and added mini trees and flowers to the garden.

Doors were made from wafer biscuits cut in half and a dab of icing for handles. The chimney is also half a wafer biscuit.

 You may be able to see the 'retaining' wall along the back of the house - wafer biscuits, topped with pineapple lumps and on the outside face, more smarties.  The birthday girl was very happy with her cake - success. We have decided, Grandpa Pete must be home next year!!!

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