14 Easy Steps to a froggie cake
July 19th, 2009
It was Karen’s birthday this week, as is now customary whenever it’s a friends birthday, I made her a birthday cake. Unfortunately I have only ever baked cakes in a pyrex bowl so my cakes are a little… round themed. This year I decided to get a bit more adventurous… but not adventurous enough to ditch the round design.
To make it a little more interesting I decided to document my progress on twitter and provide some nice easy steps so people could make the cake with me. Recreated below for posterity.
- Put all the ingredients in the bowl as the recipe says. Then cook it. http://twitpic.com/arq05
- Put some more ingredients together (this time to make fairy cakes). Stick in baking cakes and cook. http://twitpic.com/aru9t
- Try not to burn beautiful assistant. Fail.
- If you’ve accidentally washed up the sieve. Swing it around wildly in the garden to dry it out.
- Once the fairy cakes are cooked remove them from oven. If they aren’t completely round that’s fine. http://twitpic.com/arx4i
- Make buttercream icing. Add essence of green. http://twitpic.com/arxzq
- Make more buttercream icing (+ green) cause you didn’t do enough the first time.
- Hopefully the cake should be cooked by now (check with a skewer). Remove from oven and leave it to cool.
- Turn the cake out onto a plate (you may need a knife to pry it out). http://twitpic.com/as0sx
- Take two of the (24) fairy cakes and glue them to the top of the cake with buttercream icing. http://twitpic.com/as1b3
- Eat the other 22 fairy cakes.
- Cover in green buttercream icing. http://twitpic.com/as7tj
- Use ready-to-roll black and white icing to make eyes and a big smilie mouth. http://twitpic.com/as895
- Cut a little bit of red ready-to-roll icing and add it as a Tongue. Put in fridge to let the icing set. http://twitpic.com/as8hv
If you manage to follow all of those instructions correctly you should end up with the following creation…
Froggie Cake
