#POSTMAN PAT CAKE TUTORIAL FREE#

We then covered the cake in red, roll out fondant icing (it took about 300g in total). Apparently this is something that can happen, and the icing layer keeps the two separate. The lady in the cake shop told me this is not just to make the fondant stick, but also to stop the fondant being ruined by condensation if the cake starts sweating. We stuck the two pieces together with buttercream icing, then slathered the whole outside of the cake with icing too. We “shaved the tops off” off both cakes, and then cut them to the right lengths – we eyeballed this bit – to make it look roughly like a van, slightly angling the side on the smaller top cake where the windshield would go. I chose a chocolate chip batter, and actually made too, one in a 28cm long loaf tin and one in a 22cm long tin.

#POSTMAN PAT CAKE TUTORIAL FREE#

Gluten free cakes (I wanted to be able to eat some too!) have a habit of falling to pieces if you don’t get your recipe just right and this was no time for experimenting. I took a little short cut by making the actual cake out of a package. I don’t think I have the patience to make it in to a regular thing, but it definitely made a change to hanging out in front of the TV. Baking a novelty cake has always been on my list of “things to do before…” so it seemed like the perfect opportunity. It actually turned in to a fun evening with the husband, trying to construct the perfect Royal Mail van together out of cake, buttercream and fondant icing sugar. As previously mentioned, he’s a huge fan of Postman Pat, so I’d got it in to my head that, as he was now old enough to appreciate it, I wanted to make him a Postman Pat birthday cake. Personal Challenge: Baking a Novelty “Postman Pat” CakeĪt the weekend, we celebrated the boy’s 3rd birthday.

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