Peppa Pig Cake

In the two weeks leading up to my girl's second birthday I thought my child wanted a Dora cake until suddenly last minute we were back to the Peppa Pig cake, argh! Which suits me just fine but I had just ordered food colours for a Dora cake rather than a Peppa Pig colour scheme. And I now have a cupboard full of Dora birthday party stuff for next time (cross fingers!)

So going for a cake covered in MMF in the height of Australian summer was going to be another issue, maybe. Where on earth does one buy large packs of American style marshmallows. Nowhere. We even drive all the way to Costco in Sydney to buy some. Nope. Ah, the Reject Shop has tubs of marshmallow fluff, I buy 5 tubs in the hope that I can use this instead of marshmallows. I also buy one bag of icing mixture (what the?) and a bag of icing sugar before I go home to google what I actually need. Buy first, ask questions later is my motto apparently.

So it turns out the marshmallow fluff is a great investment for my MMF and the icing mixture less so. Oh well, I will have to commit to a fair amount of cupcake icing now to use up the icing mixture. 5 balls of coloured MMF later and we're set!

It's also my first time using CFC or Tylose and sort of just sprinkled a load of it onto some MMF. The time it took to harden (lightening speed) might indicate I've used far too much but hey ho, I needed the Peppa Pig to dry NOW so, great! I made a Peppa Pig and some letters, the rest I left to use as a gooey mess, as you can see from the shiny ball and "ducks".

I wasn't having much luck in the baking department, the bottom layer is my chocolate cake with supposed-to-be mascarpone/whipped cream filling but may have ended up with a wierd Philly/cream mix that wasn't great. And I really didn't like the taste of the cream here in Australia. I also lost a whole layer of cake when slicing into layers, the cake split in 3 and so forth. The top layer was first a pink victoria sponge that sank and only fit for the bin. The second panic version was a non-pink adaptation from my grandmother's gingerbread cake without the spices. I think people were just being polite when they said it was nice lol. And having to put the whole cake in the fridge and taking it out for the party meant that the whole MMF started looking fairly gooey and potentially started melting from the excess moisture. Nightmare!