oh crap - might have biten off more than I can chew ...

[Jewel]

Yeah, I'd try a trial run with a butter cake. You can get those cheap cake mixes for like 70c or something.
They taste quite good too. Lol.

Good luck.

[christy]

I would do a practice cake with your mud mix and do as they say. If you do the two sides separately, you would have to freeze the cake for 20 minutes and then shave the sides that would touch in order to get a neat edge. The use a royal icing or a hard/strong buttercream icing to hold together, pop into the fridge for an hour or so to set the icing before continuing. You could use bamboo skewers as well jic.

Goodluck!

[NaeNae]

Thanks so much, I think I will have a go at a buttercake or pound cake and see what happens the actual cake is not very big, are these cakes usually good risers? which is a nicer tasting cake?

thanks so much ladies, I knew I could count on people in here to help

Nae x x

[~Lashes~]

id go with a butter cake out of the 2 for taste. good luck. if you end up using skewers, use the larger ones, some cake sites recomend toothpicks, but they are very easy to forget and swallow, count how many go in and on cutting the cake, make sure they are all accounted for!

[NaeNae]

Thanks Christy x x

maybe I could do a round mud cake for the ducky to sit on just to make it bigger

I have check a bunch of recipes that I was given and found a butter cream cake in amongst them, this lady is also the one who gave me the mud recipe that everyone always raves about so I might give it a bash ... the cake instructions says it takes 5 1/2 cups of batter so I might do a double quantity and see what happens

so looks like this sunday I will be baking unless I feel super enthusiastic before then LOL ....... any ideas how to ensure I get a moist cake? should I substitute a bit of butter for a bit of veg oil?

Nae x