We had a practice run with the new cake tin - I used Marie's recipe - you can tell it's been a popular recipe over the years.
There were two official tasters (before the cake even made it to the oven). Note that they are the youngest and oldest in the family.
...and then we tried to ice it. We coloured some fondant icing and rolled it onto the bottom half and did a pretty shoddy job. The top is iced with a sugar icing. It looks like Smurfette might jump out of it at any minute, shouting "Papa Smurrrf, Papa Smurrrf". Megs and I thought it looked pretty crappy; the boys thought it looked pretty good. 
This is the little creature that Megs made to go on one of the smaller patty cakes that we made. His ears kept rolling off onto the floor so she had to keep sticking them back on........with spit........
Overall, I think the cake experiment was a failure. It was quite difficult and turned out nothing like we envisaged - and nothing like the beautiful cake in the book that we'd admired in Mary Ryan's a few weeks ago. To save myself stress, panic and disappointment I think I'll have an enormous patty cake made by someone who actually knows what they're doing when it comes to icing a cake. Time to make a few phone calls.............
There were two official tasters (before the cake even made it to the oven). Note that they are the youngest and oldest in the family.
This is the result - way too much batter in the tin but a nice pattern.
...and then we tried to ice it. We coloured some fondant icing and rolled it onto the bottom half and did a pretty shoddy job. The top is iced with a sugar icing. It looks like Smurfette might jump out of it at any minute, shouting "Papa Smurrrf, Papa Smurrrf". Megs and I thought it looked pretty crappy; the boys thought it looked pretty good. This is the little creature that Megs made to go on one of the smaller patty cakes that we made. His ears kept rolling off onto the floor so she had to keep sticking them back on........with spit........Overall, I think the cake experiment was a failure. It was quite difficult and turned out nothing like we envisaged - and nothing like the beautiful cake in the book that we'd admired in Mary Ryan's a few weeks ago. To save myself stress, panic and disappointment I think I'll have an enormous patty cake made by someone who actually knows what they're doing when it comes to icing a cake. Time to make a few phone calls.............Lucky that cake tin wasn't very expensive........
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