Its a cake with an Austrian train exiting a tunnel in the austrian alps...or thats what i'm telling people... Made it for a fan of Austrian trains, hopefully the recipient will recognise what i was trying to achieve. its made of three layers of chocolate cake, carving the third layer into a hill and using the extra pieces of cake to make the train. i used coconut and green colouring for the grass on top of the green fondant for extra texture and to cover up the cracks.
This is why there was a long period of what appeared to be little activity, but i was actually just stock piling...so much still to do, so little time.
Hopefully people will buy them or else i shall be stuck with the little bleeders
Same choclate cake that i have made many times before, but this time it tasted so much better, think it helped that i let it cook all the way through, Today's Tip: don't be impatient! and i didnt use butter icing, that stuff can get boring...
My first 3D Cake. Made by baking a victoria sponge in a loaf tin X2. The first cake was used as the foot base shape and the second cake was cut up to put on top for the ankle bit, the pieces of sponge were held in place with chocolate frosting and carved into the right shape. another layer of frosting was pasted all around the outide to help the icing stick to the sponge.
I rolled out the black icing and laid it on top (this was the trickiest part) i couldn't roll it out big enough to cover the whole shoe so there were a lot of joins that needed fixing, i found the best way to blend cracks and joins is by using a knife soaked in hot water and smudging it. all of the other bits of icing were then added, edible felt tip pens are very useful for detail!
People seemed to be impressed, but i have just thrown it out because no one ate it, oh well.
