Sunday 10 October 2010

Stairway to cake heaven

Little Habbibi just turned one, and loves stairs, so I tried to recreate his local set in cake:

Base was Nigella's buttermilk birthday cake made with vanilla, rather than lemon. Cut into various rectangles for stairs, they were sandwiched together with a variation of her blond icing, which made for a very pleasing effect when sliced
 


Mini boy made of fondant icing, plus fondant icing red carpet, on a base of a chocolate fudge type frosting.
 


Plus matchmakers, which I didn't realise were Nestle until too late, for banisters. In hindsight, two per step would have been better. But they held together ok with dabs of melted choccolate.
 
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