I made a Cake, as you can see. And it is a Train cake that is a fruit cake underneath. The Fruit Cake recipe is a recipe my mum has been making for years and she learnt when she was very young. And so here is the recipe.
Ingredients.
200g Rasins
200g Sultanas
100g Currants
1C Chopped Walnuts
1/2 Pound Butter
Few Drops Almond, lemon, Vanilla essence
Optional 3-4 Tblsp Bandy
3 Eggs
2 Cups Flour
1 Cup sugar
2 Heaped Tsp Baking Powder
Recipe.
Put Fruit in large pot and cover with water, boil for 10 minutes. Drain off water and keep the fruit in the pot. Add butter in small blocks to Fruit in Pot, and stir until melted. Mix all three essences into butter and fruit. Then stir in brandy.
Beat Eggs in separate bowl, then add to mixture. Sift Flour, sugar and Baking Powder into Mixture then stir, don't stir too much, and then pour into a 19cm high-sided Cake tin. Bake for 1 hr 15 mins at 150 Degrees Celcius Fan Bake.
So for the Decorating of the Cake I usually put just plain icing underneath the layer of fondant/white icing. And for this cake I was in a bit of a rush so didn't have time to coat the cake with some icing and let it refrigerate for a while. So I just skipped onto the white icing.
So first I coloured the white icing, so it was a nice like green colour and rolled it out on some baking paper which is very handy with this icing that can easily stick to the surface you are rolling it out on. So then I covered the cake with that layer of icing. I then went on to the other decorations of the cake.
So I got my icing and split it into the different components around about the right size that I would need to make them. So I first coloured the train part blue and shaped it into a little retangular box about the right size for my cake. Then the tracks, the tunnel and the funnel of the train. I used black food colouring to create the grey components of the cake. Especially for the tunnel, I made it but realised that it seemed to compress so I needed it to dry before I put it on the cake, so I put it on some baking paper and refrigerated it for an hour but you can do for aslong you like, as long as it seems firm enough to be stable on the cake, I also put some skewers in the bottom so it would keep stable on the cake. And then made some sheep out of just some plain white icing and rolled up too balls one smaller than the other so that they would look like little sheep eating grass in the scenery. For the Smoke coming out of the Train I just made some small balls of white icing and put them through a skewer into the funnel for added effect to the cake.
The bottom of the cake looked quite rough so I made some darker green plain icing and piped it along the bottom of the cake and on the top to look like little bits of grass.
And I resulted in this cute Train Cake.
