My attempt at modelling people was not a great success...although practice does make perfect so fingers crossed I will start to improve soon, so I decided I would do a teddy bear model for my cake.
After the whole chocolate cake and fondant icing fiasco at christmas I decided to go back to the recommended madeira cake recipe to use for the cake. The icing of this cake went surprisingly well - I only had to roll the fondant out twice (compared to the 8 attempts last time!) and it covered the cake (almost) perfectly. I was very very proud of this attempt..my best yet I think!
I'm not much of a madeira cake fan...I prefer a lovely light fluffy cake and I find madeira's rather heavy. The last time I made it I also found it had a very strong eggy flavour..who knows what went wrong but this cake had a much better taste to it and Karl and I enjoyed a slice each after my class this week.
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That looks fantastic. What a great job you have done. I think the teddy bear looks brill, I'm rubbish at modelling figures too but I'd be pleased as punch if they looked as good as youe bear.
ReplyDeleteThe cake looks lovely - where are you doing your course?
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ReplyDeleteThe course is an evening course at a local school. Was only £25 for 10 weeks..bargain! Some of the cakes the teacher makes are amazing!
Wow that's a bargain! Wish we had something like that near here - everywhere is waaaay too expensive!
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