Little Boy's birthday this time. His first. And given that his first attempted word was 'dog', we went for a dog.
The dog that modelled for us was Nick Butterworth's 'Kipper'.
Pretty simple construction. It took two tins, one square and the other round. The larger square one for the head, the smaller round one for the ears.
Chop the square one into a rectangle and add a bit of the offcut to make
the head the right shape (you're aiming for a sort of pear shape)
Then slop some vanilla icing on the bottom and coffee icing on the top (note, I only fed the coffee-iced cake to adults - didn't want to deal with wild children!).
Then carve the ears out of the round cake and plop them on in likely positions.
Ice them with chocolate icing. (By the way, I cheated on the vanilla and chocolate icing and bought it in a tub. The coffee icing was leftovers from the freezer)
Then add some facial bits.
Put on the table ready to be briefly admired and speedily devoured.
(Oops, that isn't meant to be upsidedown)
Regret that making includes cleaning up.
Fetch the remnants
(D'oh, another upsidedown one... Oh well, you get the picture, so to speak)
All in a day's work really :)
