This year the boy who has everything asked for a Rocket cake to celebrate his 5th birthday. 3D of course. Here goes...
First the cake recipe so next time I'll remember. (Why don't I ever write these things down?)
185 g butter
1 cup caster sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs
2 cups SR flour
1/4 cup milk.
Beat the sugar, butter and vanilla with electric beater, add egg one at a time and beat well after adding each. Sift flour into the mix and add milk.
Bake at 180 degrees. Depending on the tin size, cooking times will vary.
I'm using a 10cm diameter cake tin.
The first stage. I layered vanilla and chocolate butter cakes. Unfortunately I decided to use cream cheese frosting between these cakes. Bad move because it doesn't set well like standard butter cream. But it does taste good. I created a base for the rocket and there is a dowel rod in the middle to support the rocket.
I made some standard cookie dough and added more sugar to the recipe than recommended and cut the wings of the rocket. The extra sugar makes the cookie stronger and less crumbly. I just wedged the wings into the sides of the cake and they stayed in with no problems.
Fiddly with the decorating, especially when the layers were moving because of the cream cheese between the layers. But in the end, I was pretty happy with the result. If I ever made this again, I would use a harder setting frosting between the layers and work a bit harder on fixing my dowel to the base properly.
