Wheelistically @ Claire.NU

You know what we haven’t had around here in a while?

CAKE.

Behold our most recent pro­ject and the first pro­ject to grace our new digs:

The cake was made to cel­eb­rate my Mum’s birth­day and takes its inspir­a­tion from the fact that after an almost 25 year absence from the roads, my Mum has recently taken up driv­ing again. As a res­ult, she has a very new little Ford Fiesta (see example below, cour­tesy of the Top­Gear web­site).

We wanted some­thing that would not only cel­eb­rate Mum’s birth­day, but would give a nod to her big achieve­ment of attempt­ing to beat her driv­ing pho­bia and get­ting back on Britain’s scary roads with all the nut­ters. She’s done and con­tin­ues to do so very, very well and we’re very proud of her being such a brave bunny. Yay for my Mum.

As usual, K does her best to up the stakes with each cre­ation; the goal with this one? Not only to get it to stand upright, but to elev­ate the main body of the car-cake so that only its wheels touched the cake board. Those who remem­ber our last car-themed cake may recall it look­ing a little…erm, bogged down; not this one, oh no.

Hav­ing gorged her­self on epis­ode after epis­ode of Ace of Cakes in recent months, K was inspired to cre­ate a foil-wrapped card­board plinth for the body of the cake to rest on in order for it to be raised up off of the board. The plinth also served to sta­bil­ise the axle (made from cock­tail sticks) that the mar­zipan wheels were fixed on to.

Again, the only part I can make claim to is the Madeira sponge that the cake was made out of. (Which incid­ent­ally, was my best recipe yet and appar­ently, was rather scrump­tious). All cre­at­ive genius and won­der­ous­ness radi­ates solely from my beloved.

K kicks car-cake ass, don’t you think?

For the full pic­ture story, includ­ing shots of the cake prior to being dec­or­ated, check out the entire photoset:

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