I've got a cake to do for Sunday... a teddy (like the one below, which was originally done by 'Magical Myschief on the BSG website - and a HUGE thanks to her for all her help so far!) to feed 70 people, plus an 8" square cutting cake.
I couldn't get a cake board big enough, so I bought a piece of 9mm MDF at B&Q and had it cut so that it's approx. 30" x 17". I bought some really pretty sticky-back plastic and have covered it. But now I'm worried about how the cake will stay on the board, because of the plastic!! I mean, I'll be putting the cakes onto gold cake card, but I usually stick the card to the board with either royal icing or buttercream... but the board is usually covered with sugarpaste, not sticky-back plastic!!!! I'm going to ask for some advice on this one. I'm just not sure.I'm making the teddy thus: the head is a pudding basin, approximately equivalent to an 8" round tin. For the body I'm using an even larger pudding basin which is roughly equivalent to a 10" round. For the legs, I'm baking cake in some of the 2½" mini cake tins. And the arms will be a 5" or 6" round, cut in half, and one half put either side of the body. The nose/muzzle will be one of the mini half sports balls!
Then the whole thing will be covered in chocolate buttercream. That's a lot of piping!! I bet my hands and arms will be aching afterwards! :o)
Should be good, though. The customer didn't want plain sponge; she's requested sponge with both chocolate chips and pistachio nuts. Sounds nice! :o)
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