Lots of little distractions have been going on that have meant I've not been doing much in the way of baking or at least not a huge amount.
This week though I did make a horse head cake. Nothing as macabre as The Godfather horse head - of course this is what's been in my mind all week whenever I thought about doing it, but as it was a for an eight year old girl I'm sure it's not quite what they were after!
I originally thought I'd do a full 3D horse and set about baking 4 1/2 sheet cakes of red velvet but as the end cake was to feed 20 people and not 200 I decided to scale it down a bit - okay real reason is I panicked that I wouldn't get the proportions right! I started trying to draw a horse sitting down, on Thursday night, (cake due for pick up on Friday), I am the proverbial lastminute.com worker - well the advantage to that is extremely fresh cake :-) Anyway, I fast realized that I can't draw a horse, insert lots of expletives here any ones you like as I'm sure I used them all and I also made up a few new ones too. So, with the reassuring voice of reason of my husband - what he actually said, "was that looks sh*t, why don't you just do the head?", I decided that I'd do a horse head and made a template and went from there.
Friday morning all was quiet, except for me munching on some Dove peppermint bark squares well a girl needs to keep her strength up, and my iPod blaring to keep me company, and I set to work on carving the sheet cakes into a horses head. The photo's will follow - no I didn't take any as I was carving as I'd probably have either cut my fingers off (yes I did use the biggest bread knife I have in the style of Buddy from Carlos Bakery and no my delusion knows no bounds!) or got the lens covered in red velvet and cream cheese frosting crumbs. Alright, real reason is that I made one huge unholy mess whilst carving. There was cake everywhere and I do mean everywhere, there's no way I could have recorded that evidence.
I got the cake done in 3 hours, well all up until the bridle and then I had to head off and do some mummy duties at the 4th grade winter party at school and then come home and finish the cake before the swim team chauffeuring began - just one of the reasons I've not been caking recently.
By some small miracle, I got the bridle rolled and cut and attached and removed, scrapped and redone all before it was time to hit the pool and I was quietly pleased with it I don't mind telling you. It's not often I feel that way, I usually feel like I'm going to throw up before cakes are delivered or picked up but not this time, maybe it was just the exhaustion taking over.
The cake was picked up and they loved it. And I had just enough time to descale the kitchen of red velvet cake before the girls' friend arrived for a sleepover - it's all go in the burbs!
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| A close up without his ears - they wouldn't fit in the box! |
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| Not so close up and with the ears, although I think I like him without them and it's okay to say that because he can't hear me ha ha ha! |
Christmas cakes coming up, watch this space....
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