Phew!

Sorry it's taken me a few days to get around to updating the diary.

Well, eventually, I did manage to cover the cake with sugarpaste. It did help leaving the sugarpaste thicker, although it did still rip a bit. However, I decided that what I'd do is instead of just marking out the front doors, I would cut out the sugarpaste and put a new panel in. This way, I was able to cut out the torn bit of sugarpaste! Clever, eh? ;o)

Once the cake was sugarpasted, I stuck it onto the wooden plinth on the board. Again, I used the 'no more nails' type adhesive that I used to stick the plinth onto the board (I could do this, because the cake was on a board and there was no way the two were going to come into contact with each other). Because of the size and weight of the cake, I needed to make sure it wasn't going to fall!!!!

Before going to bed, I made the panels that had the words 'Mystery Machine' on them. I coloured the sugarpaste, cut them to shape and then left them to set a little over night. The next morning, I traced the Mystery Machine logo onto them and outlined the writing in black, then filled it in with orange colouring gel, watered down slightly. Then, I put them onto the van. In hindsight, they could have been ever so slightly bigger... but that's just me being overly picky.

It didn't look like I had much left to do on the cake, but it still took me all day and all evening (going to bed at about 1am) until I finished.

But I'm really pleased with it. And, most importantly, so was the customer.

Oh, during the day, I also baked a cake in a tiffin tin ready for decorating the next day (Friday). It was going to be a Barbie cake and was being delivered Friday evening.

I'm pleased to say I did get the cake done in time. My brother delivered it all the way to Tunbridge Wells for me (he's a licenced cab driver, so it was a proper paid transaction). The customer was absolutely thrilled with it. In fact, she phoned me this morning 1) to tell me how much everyone adored the cake and 2) to ask how long the cake would be OK for? I told her it was baked on Thursday afternoon and I would say a maximum of 5 days, so therefore she should eat it by tomorrow.