Well, it’s been a while and I find myself clinging to my twenties and reluctant to let go. I don’t want to be in my 30’s I find the whole thing a hurdle. I think this is mainly because I had planned so much for myself to have achieved by now, and I feel not much has been done. I am getting there though I suppose, also you can never plan when you have to factor in other people and what they want to do as well. Maybe the key is never to plan and that way you are never disappointed.
It’s that time of year again the fantastic Mr Bus’ birthday. Now last year I decided to design and make him a digger cake, this year of course I had to equal that effort or go one better. I had a few ideas in the pipeline and decided to ask the Birthday boy what he would prefer. We went with a VW Bus cake. Now I started with baking a lemon drizzle loaf cake, whilst this was cooling had the daunting thought this was not going to be high enough, so baked another lemon loaf cake, this time without the drizzle, so that I could square off the top to sit the other one on top of it. After these had cooled down, it was time to build, placing the loaf cakes one on top of the other with a layer of vanilla butter cream in the middle, I covered the cakes all over in butter cream. I then set about with the icing. I thought it best to start with the white top and draped it over the cakes, just leaving enough for a slight overlap at the bottom. ...
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