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Second year to get a first for our cake!

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This year we wanted to make an even bigger and better cake  for the Yell Show! We decided to make the show field – yes we were ambitious…but it paid off because we got first prize for our outstanding cake!!

It took a whole week to prepare and a very busy day on Friday for us all to put all the cake together. I think you will agree that all our hard work had was worth it though.

We had lots of ideas of what we could do. We really thought about the little details like bunting, the bouncy castle, the barrels, etc. We came up with some really ceative ideas as to how to make each part of the cake. We decided the hall, 3 sheds and Hendersons ‘fish and chip’ truck would be made out of cake. Ice cream wafers would be the slates/sheets for the roofs. The cars would be moulded from marshmallow Krispies, the bouncy castle would be made of flumps, the animals with regal icing, the barrels out of marshmallows dipped in blue food colouring, pens out of either curly wurlys, chocolate fingers, matchmakers or KitKat fingers – the different pens for different animals would be different and bunting made with skewers, string and small triangles cut out of coloured paper.

We had to follow a recipe to bake the cakes. We used a big tray for the hall (which we would be cut in half and put on top of each other) the sheds we decided to use a loaf tins as this would be a good shape.

We had to make a plan of the show field so we knew where we wanted to put everything and what size we would need everything to be.

We made the cows, dogs and ponies out of regal icing and then used icing pens to put colour onto them. We thought the primary ones could make the sheep out of cakes, and mini marshmallows.

We made Marshmallow Krispies and moulded them into the shape of cars, the ice cream van and a tractor and then decorate them.

We crushed chocolate biscuits to make gravel for the car park. We also crushed Oreos to make earth for the pens.

Primary 7 made the bouncy castle out of flumps.

Once we assembled the cakes we had to ice them. We spread jam on the cake to help the icing stick and then we made the roofs. We made  butter icing so we could get the waffers to stay on the roof.

We spread jam on the bottom of the cake so that the gravel would stick and not all fall off when transporting the cake. We also rolled out green icing so that we could make this grass for the horses pen.

We used the rest of the butter icing to spread over the remaining cake so that we could cover this in the crushed oreos for the earth.

Then it was time to put the blue barrels on and tie string around it to look like the rope.

Our cake was then finished!

We really enjoyed making this cake!

 

Achievements, School

Preparing for the Yell Show

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On Monday 29th of August we decided we would make a cake to enter into the Yell show. We had to decide what to make and decided on a sheep cakeas it is an agricultural show. Then on Thursday the 1st of September we baked the best cake anyone has ever seen! The whole school baked with Miss Nicholson and Miss Jamieson.  We worked as a team and got into groups to make a different part of the cake. There was a team making the icing, a team making the big cake and 4 groups making fairy cakes (this was for the sheep). Ruby, Abbie and Jasmine designed how the cake would look thinking about the icing, the fencing and where the sheep would go. At golden time on Friday we decorated the cake – icing the big slab of cake to make it look like a park, we used curlywurlys and chocolate fingers to make a fence then decorated the individual fairy cakes to make them look like sheep by using mini marshmallows. Kane made one cake look like a dog. Miss Nicholson had bouht edible flowers so we used these to decorate the cake and used chocolate chips to make it look like sheep pirls.