jethro

A couple of weeks ago I covered the cake board in grey fondant and fondant dots so it would look like a Lego board.  This is a good thing to do well in advance as you really do need the fondant to dry a bit, and so long as you cover it loosely in clingfilm to keep the dust off, it is OK to be stored for about a month.

The hardest part of the cake was definitely the actual toy box!  I baked two chocolate celebration cakes in a roasting tin I had (recipe at the end of this post).  I then cut the edges off and stacked them on top of one another.  I iced them in chocolate buttercream before decorating with chocolate fondant on which I created a wood-grain effect with a pointed modelling tool.

It was a fun cake to make, despite all the work and despite stretching myself a little too thin whilst doing it!

All this talk of chocolate is making me hungry.  Is 10am too early for tea and cake?