Novelty Cake No 1 – A Pot Of Mud Dirt Cake
In the past 2 weeks my whims and fancies have shifted to the wonderful world of cake decorating. As I have mentioned before, I have been dawdling over the idea of baking a ‘fun’ cake for my son’s 2nd birthday which happens to be next month. To achieve that with a certain flair, I need to practice and perfect my methods. As luck would have it, it was our 5th Wedding Anniversary yesterday and the ocassion called for a special cake. So a week ago I started scouring hundreds of Novelty Cake recipes and design ideas. The idea of the ‘Dirt Cake’ in a plastic flower pot intrigued me. But I wanted a proper cake, not a dessert ladled into a store-bought pot, which is what the ‘Dirt Cake’ really is.
After a bit of thought I braved the ‘Pot Of Mud’ Cake and it turned out quite nice. The idea was pretty straightforward and required minimum fuss on my part. I baked a Chocolate Mudcake in a deep souffle pan, to achieve the ‘flower pot’ shape. Next, I dug up the top to resemble loose, wet soil. The cake crumbs which I dug up were scattered at the base of the cake and decorated with raspberries and green marzipan leaves to get a garden ‘look and feel’. I decorated the upper rim of the ‘flower pot’ with white marzipan trim and handmade blue marzipan flowers. I stuck an actual steel and wood mini spade in the mud to complete the cake.
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The cake has to be one of the best I’ve ever tasted, the icing was pretty much perfect. It looked exactly like a pot of mud with flowers and leaves all around it, not bad at all for a first attempt. Thank you for such a lovely yummy cake. I loved it and anyone who tries this will love it too.
My friend wants to do this idea for her bridal shower, we can’t find spades that size any where! When I saw this picture online I felt a glimmer of hope spades this size do exist! May I ask where you purchased it?
Hi Emy,
just saw your comment on the blog. that spade is actually part of my son’s gardening set …. you will find miniature sized gardening tools [spades, forks etc ...] in the kid’s outdoor toy section in most major toy shops or in hardware/garden shops where they might have small sets for little gardeners
. All The Best for your friends shower!!
Cheers!
Gel
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