Getting busy...

Firstly  - find yourself grateful receivables  - These are people who will appreciate cake in any shape, colour and flavor  - I work with people  - and they are often my target - birthdays , celebrations, public holidays etc.

Then choose a theme and size - you don't want to have too much cake left over and certainly you don't want to miss someone out.

This cake was made for Someone from St Lucia...

This is simple cake - but for Someone who couldn't go back home to St Lucia it was enough.



So how did it all started?

With Internet search of course. I found the map of St Lucia and printed a copy as a reference. Then check for ingredients making sure I had everything I needed including food colouring and grease proof paper:

For sponge

3 large eggs

200 g of sugar

200 g of self-raising flour

200 g of butter

3 table spoon of water

1 table soon of baking soda

For butter cream

75 g of butter

175 g of icing sugar

2 table spoon of milk

orange grated peel at least 1 table spoon

Other

50 g of raspberry jam

1 kg of ready to roll icing

food colouring - blue , yellow and orange

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees or gas mark 4. Then start mixing softened butter  with whole eggs. Add sugar, baking soda and flour. At last add water . Mix until smooth. Place mix into round tin lined with grease paper. Place in the middle of pre-heated oven. Bake for 40 minutes or until golden brown. 

Bake second sponge. 

Prepare butter cream whilst waiting for sponges to cool. Mix softened butter with icing sugar. Add milk for creamier texture. Then add orange grated peel for taste - the more the tangier. Place butter cream into fridge until it becomes stiffer.

Check your sponges - they should be fairly flat , if not use long knife and cut top of the cake off. Once    happy with your sponges and cream, spread jam on the top of one sponge and butter cream on other. Stick them together. Cover your cake with butter cream. Place in fridge and prepare your icing.

Your ready to roll icing needs to be knelled to become playable. Part small icing to colour yellow and tiny part to colour orange. The rest will be coloured blue. I used yellow and orange liquid food colouring   and blue colouring was powder based , but I am sure that liquid colouring would be good too. Blue icing was knelled only until marble effect was achieved. Roll out blue icing and cover the cake.

Tidy up the sides of the cake. Cut the excess icing off. Roll out yellow icing and create St Lucia shaped island . Mark several towns on icing island - reference with print out. Using left over butter cream glue island onto the cake. If you feel brave use the rest of butter cream to create latitude and names of cities. I used it to mark the age and date of birth.

  

And that is it !!!