Before we start all our Christmas baking I thought I would quickly upload some photos of the cake that Emily made for Rich for his Birthday this year. We all love watching the Great British Bake Off and also enjoy watching An Extra Slice. Rich’s absolute favourite bit is when they show photos of things that other people have had a go at baking, in particular the famous hedgehog cakes. So for his Birthday this year I thought we could make him a hedgehog cake and I would let Emily decorate it all by herself! I was secretly hoping it would be very funny leaving a 4 year old to do it! Click
Rich loves ginger and salted caramel, so I chose Kim Joys stem ginger cake with salted caramel. The recipe can be found here. Emily helped me weight out the ingredients and once baked I cut it into shape and covered it with chocolate buttercream. Then it was over to Emily. I bought a couple of packets of chocolate fingers, some chocolate buttons for eyes, maltesers for the nose and of course some gummy lips and teeth!
She absolutely loved doing it and started very precisely by doing a straight line of chocolate fingers across the hedgehog! She then added more fingers until they had all gone. I put some green royal icing around the board and she stuck lots of flowers and leaves on. The cake looked brilliant, I was totally amazed by how precise she was with each decoration. Rich loved the cake and Emily was very proud of her creation, she’s definitely got the baking gene!
Such a cute cake ! And I am a big fan of the show too – its my Saturday binge watching . show but being from the USA I have too google lots of the items and recipes… Lisa