I’ve been playing with icing again. This time the cake was
for my nephew’s birthday. As it was a family party I decided to steer clear of
chocolate, as it doesn’t suit everyone (oh the horror). I also wanted a cake I
could eat. The result was a gluten free egg-free lemon cake. I’m really pleased with it and the great thing about lemon
is that the cake tastes better after a few days, rather than stale.
The nieces suggested a train cake, which sounded like fun to
me. This is just one normal sized cake, baked in a square tin then cut to form
an engine and carriages. There is a lot of icing – seriously so much icing.
There will be icing dreams.
Over all I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, although
the many ways it deviates from a proper train bother me a little. For example
just how the wheels work when they’re outside the track is a mystery and the
funnel placement plain wrong (but necessary for cake structural integrity,
unfortunately). The kink in the track is also odd – when I saw how it’d turned
out I wanted to create a train derailment, because there is no way a train
could get around a corner that tight. Sadly disaster themed cakes are probably
not suitable for toddlers.
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