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| Chez |
Does anyone make interesting cakes? - eg, Lion-shaped?I mean, I know that LOADS of people make interesting cakes. But does anyone make anything that might be an interesting 'naming ceremony' cake?We have calmed down a bit now and are going for the naming ceremony aspect of things and I would like to have a cake. I have done some online browsing and there seems to be a veritable bakery full of nauseating baby-blue and baby-pink or frilly-white cakes available. I don't know what I would like, but I don't want that. So, does anyone make interesting cakes, with interesting decorations that could come in, say, the shape of a chicken. Or a kangaroo. Or a hedgehog. Or anything similarly off-piste. Whatever we do is going to piste someone off. So off-piste is where we are going. |
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| gil |
What about a lion-shaped cake for Leo ? | ||
| Chez |
Oooooh, that's a good idea!
Okay, can anyone make us a Lion-shaped cake to feed about twenty people? |
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| Northern_Lad |
Find a mould, first. Even if it's just cat shaped then it'll do.
Guestimate how many it will feed, based on a single 4442 in an 8" tin will do 6 (or 3 sluts). If it's not enough then make many layers. |
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| gil |
If you really wanted to piste people off, you could make a baby-shaped cake. I once organised a Halloween Horror warehouse party which involved such a cake.
But I do think a lion would be nicer. Whoever made it could have a lot of fun making/icing the mane, tail and whiskers. |
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| Fee |
From here. Our local cake decorating shop when I was younger used to hire them out, I had a Garfield cake for my 12th birthday (though my Mumdidn't have any black icing, so she left those bits cake-coloured  )
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| Chez |
Coool! Thanks Fee! 
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| LynneA |
My mum used to do a chick shaped cake, that could be adapted to be sort of lion shaped.
She baked sponges in two different sized pyrex bowls, and when cooked, turned them on their sides. She lopped the top & bottom off the larger sponge, and just one corner off the smaller. She then made a huge batch of yellow buttercream, used some to stick the "head" to the "body" then smothered the cakes with buttercream. Finally she created feathers by chucking a load of dessicated coconut on the back and sides and used smarties and chocolate squares to make the eyes and beak. You could adapt this by having the pointed end of the "head" facing forwards to create the snout, using cream and orange buttercream, and using long flakes of coconut to make a mane. |
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| BahamaMama |
I had a pattern for a lion cake - I will try and dig it out. Essentially it was a Victoria Sponge, just round and all the lion detail was different colours of butter icing (huge quantities of butter icing), spaghetti for whiskers etc.
It was fab! |
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| Stacey |
I have this book which has a pattern and instructions for a lion cake
http://www.amazon.com/Fantastic-Australian-Womens-Weekly-Library/dp/1863960910 You're welcome to borrow it if you want |
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| wellington womble |
libraries often have loads of books of interesting shaped cakes. | ||
| Chez |
Our library comes on a Thursday morning when I take Leo to Ti a Fi. Although it is half term tomorrow ... 
Stacey, thank you very much - much appreciated! |
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| Green Rosie |
I've got a recipe in an aussie cookbook for a lion cake - with pictures. Would you like me to pm it to you? | ||
| Chez |
Yes please GR. Then I can do an amalgamation of all the different recipes! | ||
| wellington womble |
I read that as 'Yes please, Grrrrr' - thought you were getting carried away!
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| Chez |
Grrrrr! Grrrrr! ROAR!!!!
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| Green Rosie |
Shhhhhhh - you'll wake the children
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| alison |
Ive got a 3d train, 3d panda, guitare, or book shaped tins if you want to borrow any of those.
The train does a lovely thomas the tank, and the panda has been many things, if you cut the ears off. |