Made what felt like a hundred cakes...
It was four. It just felt like more. 'Twas Dan's 40th birthday, so I offered to make some cake.
I thought a couple of sheet cakes would be good, but for a birthday surprise I wanted to make some cakes that looked like his cats.
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| Here they are... cats in boxes. |
So this is a bit of a hotch potch of cake making - there's an abundance of new stuff to be used, and icing to prepare!
I used a 5egg cake mix for each pair of cakes (one sheet/one cat in each flavour) and the mix was divided and flavoured before adding to the tins.
First up -Sheet cakes
I made two of them chocolate orange cake with an orange flavoured buttercream frosting, and a vanilla sponge with a chocolate ganache topping.
Here's my first new toy - tray bake foils. Exciting!
How about something a little different? Hemispheric cake tins? Yes indeed!
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| oooh, that's me in there... |
Stackable cooling racks? Is there no gadget I won't buy?
(I haven't found my photos yet... here are some to keep you going )
Next on the list is the indispensable non-stick-in-a-bottle:
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| rack 'em up... |
And this is what the cake tin looked like - non stuck!
I used a dark chocolate ganache for the plain sponge, and an orange flavoured butter cream on the chocolate cake.
Then added chocolate candy beans (a marvelous Home Bargains purchase...) and malteasers.
And so to the cats!!
Orange flavoured and coloured icing for Ginge, black chocolate flavoured icing for Stumpy:
Coloured roll out icing make the facial features and ears -
Hehe - more cats in boxes!
