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Yes, I made birthday cupcakes back in March with all Matthew's favorite flavors (bananas, raisins, peanut butter), but when my in-laws were packing to come visit us here in Japan, I asked Stephen's mum if she could bring some packaged fondant icing to help me make a special Hankyu train (our local train company) cake! A bit late, but WELL worth it. Just look at it! It ended up that I made the actual cake (used
the carrot-ginger muffin recipe I made before), but my MIL did all the decorating. Isn't she a pro?!?
Here's a pic from the Internet of the actual train:
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My MIL, Helen, is an artist, so she started out by doing a few pencil drawings to get a feel for it:
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She used various pieces of the cakes and stuck them together with toothpicks...
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Then rolled out the icing. She mixed white, black, green, and red to create the burgundy color of the train body and affixed it to the cake with a warm mixture of marmalade and water.
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And not only did she create a beautiful cake, but look at the beautiful smile on her grandson's face! He was one happy camper.
10 comments:
Well done Grand-mamatouille! Great cake! Matthew, you are one lucky chappy having such a great B'day cake!
Great Job. You need a lot of patience to do such work which I don't have. It looks beautiful.
Oh that Maffa -- he's a special boy with a special cake! Very, very impressive.
How cool! It turned out great!
what a cool MIL and cake!
Wow! What a cool idea! And, how wise of you to have MIL do it! HAHAHA! I'm sure you could do it to, though! I saw fondant cutters at Yuzawaya today and thought of PW's recent posts. Not for me!
Excellent.
Your patience far surpasses mine. I can do cake... but not shapes :)
brilliant. go MIL!
i love that she brought the fondant from so far away! you're a woman after my own heart, abigail.
Thanks, everybody, for your special comments about the train cake. I've passed them on to my MIL! :)
Wow, this takes a lot of work. Nice job!
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