A little of my genius

Just found this photo from Heidi's birthday, courtesy of Sheryl. 'tis the Humpty Dumpty cake i made for her party, which was meant to be a simple affair. However, as you can imagine, finding an easter egg in October is not the easiest of tasks, so i had to make one.

It was easy enough, Humpty Dumpty Mark 1 got made without serious incident, but then he fell out of the freezer the night before the party and smashed into a million tiny pieces. He was unsalvageable, so Humpty Dumpty Mark 2 was made by a very grumpy Joanne at approximately 11pm, after a mercy dash to the supermarket for more chocolate. (Of course, when i had made HD#1 and he was a success, i stupidly ate the remainder of that king size chocolate bar, not allowing for any disastrous contingencies.)

HD#2 made, next morning and all i had to do before th guests arrived was ice the cake board and make some green grass out of coconut and green colouring; make chocolate icing for the wall, put the raisins on the wall to make it resemble a wall, and lovingly mould some limbs for poor old Humpty Dumpty out of fondant icing. It was at this point that i realised cake making is not the profession for me, especially not with 6 willing hands in the way trying to 'help'.

Anyway....the finished product, if you will!

Ah...can't get the picture any bigger thann this sadly, but you get the drift. In the event, Heidi hated all the attention and was traumatised by everyone singing Happy Birthday to her. Sigh.