We stacked all the cakes together, sandwiched with orange butter cream and started to roll out the huge block of fondant, the cake needed almost the full kilo of icing to cover it and by the time it was done the whole lot was quite sticky so we opened the kitchen window, covered the cake with a tea towel and let it stand for half an hour.
In the meantime i was decorating the cakeboard for our masterpiece. The wrapping from that "research" orange was coming in very handy, i cut a circle out of foil and cut up the foil from the TCO and stuck it all around the edge so that when the cake was sitting on it then it would look like it was the real wrapper.
By now the cake had cooled so the details were starting, i have some embossing tools for card making which i thought would be handy for doing all of the little details on the cake. First i scored lines top to bottom to show the segments and then i started all of the tiny little grooves to represent the orange peel look that the real TCO has...................... three and a half hours later!!!!! The beast was completed!
Getting the cake on to the board was another challenge due to the sheer weight of it but we managed with just a little fondant repair needed. Next came the 15 minute car journey with the cake on my knee, terrifying but we made it intact so all that was left to do was to pipe on to the board "its not terrys, its charlies!!!"
Lukily the birthday boy and all other guests were impressed and managed to eat an amazing HALF of the huge cake!
All in all i'd say we had another success but i have a feeling our next challenge will be a biggie, my little brother has just got engaged and is having a party to celebrate. We offered to make the engagement cake and his exact words to mam were " let amys imagination run wild"
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