June
21
2010
21
2010
Jake’s 5th Birthday
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Yesterday was Jake’s 5th Birthday and he wanted a racing car cake, Maxi to be exact, from Roary the Racing Car. I gave him the choice of cake flavour and he chose Caramel mud so it was time to get down to business. |
I decided my best option for this cake was to use a loaf tin and cut the car shape from this. I also baked four cupcakes with the left over cake batter to use for the wheels. Using a picture of Maxi to copy from, I did a free-hand cut to get the car shape and using the cut pieces of cake to increase the height at the back. The entire cake is covered with white chocolate ganache and a thin layer of coloured fondant. Maxi’s hat and sunglasses are pure fondant. The rear spoiler I was unable to make from pure fondant as it just would not hold straight so I used a piece of cardboard and covered with fondant for that added strength. The track is also made with black and white fondant.
The kids all seemed happy with the results and were all very keen to eat a wheel. 
Christee-Lee 
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This is fantastic!
I want to know why it took you 30yrs to uncover this talent??
I don’t even remember you COOKING when we were younger!!
From now on can you just make a duplicate of Jake’s birthday cakes and store it away til the following March for Dylans bday, they seen to love the same things!!
Great Work, Kim xx
Thanks so much Kim! Why did it take so long…hmmm not sure. I’ve loved cooking for quite a few years now and have been amazed by beautiful cakes so thought I’d really like to give it a go myself!