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[solitary_summer]

Aaand... the cake in question:




I stupidly asked my sister what she thought my niece would like, and after a while she came up with the idea of a cake like a train. Five hours, one minor break-down when I had the finished cake, but no idea whatsoever how to turn it into a train, a lot of inept cutting and improvising with chocolate glaze, and then I liked it for maybe 2.5 minutes, simply because of, oh, train! it actually looks like a train!, before starting to hate it again because it was so completely cakewreck-y. Good thing the niece is only three and has no standards when it comes to birthday cakes.

Comments

[tencrush]

That's not cakewrecky! Nice use of chocolate digestives there. And that bulbous thing with the cream in on the front that the Dutch call a Negrokiss, which I'm sure has a far less offensive name in English that escapes me right now.

[solitary-summer.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

I've no idea what it's called in English either—it's 'Schwedenbombe' in German, or maybe more precisely in Austrian-German, because I think they're called something different again in Germany...

[davenport-6.livejournal.com]

Don't be so hard on yourself. It's really very cute! (And I'm sure it was delicious.)

[solitary-summer.livejournal.com]

It was just an average Marmorkuchen from a recipe my sister gave me; I don't think the niece even ate any of it, just the 'chimney' (first thing to go) and the passengers.

The main problem was that the chocolate glaze dried much too fast...

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

Dear, the cake is perfect! Wow!

[solitary-summer.livejournal.com]

Eh, there's a reason I didn't post a close(r)-up picture. *g*

But I guess I really need to get my perfectionist streak under control... Thank you. :)