Have you seen the Women's Weekly "Kids' Birthday Cakes" Book? Not the 1980's one with the train, but one from much later. It has a toadstool house on the front and instructions inside. Granted, it is not a red and white toadstool - which I think it should be if it is going to be a real fairy/elf house but that is beside the point!
I have a copy at home here and can email the recipe/instructions to you can't find the book. Just pm me your address.
Google images should give you an idea of what I am talking about.
Heya
Firstly, if you want hard copy info, the AWW cookbook has one on the cover (And obviously the recipe for it inside)
Basically, it is made out of 2 cakes, which are baked in 2 different sized pudding steamers or similar. I used porcelain nesting mixing bowls (which were oven safe lol). You could use PYREX glass nesting bowls - they are about $12 and $20 from Matchbox for the size you need.
The 2 cakes are baked and then depending on how (with what) you are icing them, the small one is on the bottom, iced and the second is placed on top, iced and deco'd.
It will depend on the size and weight of the cakes you are using as to whether you want to use cake supports in the bottom to hold the top. I didn't and it worked out fine. You can also use some long bamboo skewers if it is travelling, you just pull them out before you serve it.
Hi Smiles!!!! I made this one too and used the same size Pyrex bowls (just filled one a little more than the other) and it all stayed together beautifully without skewers etc. although there was heaps of butter iciing! I got some milk choc and dyed it different colours to make the spots on the toadstool which DD loved. Also sprinkled some edible glitter as fairy dust too!
The WW cake recipes are really quite yummy too. Happy baking - I love birthday cakes it is so much fun!!!
I can scan and email the recipe to you tomorrow if that helps.
I used the Womens Weekly one as a base, I made a basic vanilla butter cake for the cakes, but instead of spending money on pudding steamers that I would never used again I actually used Dolly Varden tins that I hired from a local cake shop - only cost me $6 for the weekend! They worked perfectly!
HERE is a photo -hope you can see it - not sure how to link a public now that FB has changed! I also used butter icing but if I had to do it again I would use Betty Crocker Vanilla icing and dye that which is what I have done for cakes since then and it works beautifully!
I made the WW one...or used it as a base too...I bought a few packets of the home brand butter cake mix, and used the microwave instructions. All I had to do was use 2 slightly different shaped microwave safe bowls (which I already had) and then ice and put together. I ended up using some skewers through the cake to hold the 2 parts together, and cut a plastic plate to fit on the underside of the cake to be the top of the mushroom, just for a bit of extra support.
Good luck! And remember to have fun!
Oh, and Woolworths had some little sugar icing fairies which I used to put around the toadstool. And I bought some of the premade white fondant icing (around $5 for a small box at woolies) to make the little white circles to go on my toadstool. If I can find a photo I'll put it up tonight.
How to make a Fairy Toadstool cake ?
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(And obviously the recipe for it inside)
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