The cake will go on and on…

Note: this post is actually a few weeks old and I have been put to shame by the speediness of Martha's cooking ... better late than never! - B

Well the birthday celebrations certainly did go on and on – but when you reach 80 there is a lot to celebrate!

Two weeks later the big night arrived – April 14, 1912  the night the Titanic would sink – with Grandma and family aboard celebrating her birthday.

But back to the cake.

The only cake that seemed fitting for such a big occasion was to bake the Titanic itself ...  but with such a busy week at work how to get it done?

I had to employ some time savers – namely Safeway’s already made rainbow cake and mini choc swiss rolls and Betty Crocker frosting (it’s can’t be cheating if it’s my own frosting…).

From here it was a case of building. A BBQ tray was the perfect setting for the cakes to sail the high seas and surrounded by blue jelly the scene was set. Four mini choc swiss rolls made Titanic’s iconic four funnels. While the pre-iced rainbow cakes stuck together beautifully to make the upper and lower decks.

Betty Crocker’s chocolate and vanilla frostings were applied liberally to the lower and upper decks respectively and proved the perfect consistency for spreading. For decorations, what could be more appropriate than lifesavers to create some not-so-traditional-but-very-colourful portholes. And finally, some pre-piped lettering left over from the hickory dickory clock spelled out Happy Birthday to Gran and declared the ship to be HMS Titanic.

The finished product was certainly as decadent as the Titanic itself, if sugar was a unit of wealth I would have been very rich indeed.

The verdict:

Difficulty: 6 - 2 (for pre-baking) + 3 (for difficulty in carrying a it was so heavy) = 7

Tastiness: pure sugar hit



Betty x