A huge well done to all our pupils who entered these fabulous enteries into the show and received a prize or a trophy! I think you will agree they are definitely worthy of their prizes!
Katy took in the rosette that their cow received as he won male champion!
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!
For the Yell show we are entering a novelty cake. On Friday we baked sponge and put it in the freezer until we need it. Today we finished designing our cake and we have already made the cake bases, animals, marshmallow krispies, a bouncy castle and bunting. We got fondant and have been moulding animals. We made cows, horses and dogs. To make the marshmallow krispies we got butter, marshmallows and rice krispies. We melted the butter and marshmallows together and then added the rice krispies in. We will mould them into cars. To make the bouncy castle we used flumps and cocktail sticks to put them together.
We entered our cake into the novelty cake section in the Yell Show on the 3rd of September. It was the best cake there as it received a first AND won ‘Best in children’s baking’. It was a tough competition as there was other great cakes in this category. We made other little sheep and entered these into a different category – we got a well done and a second for these. Emma and Jessica bought the little cakes and the Lawson’s bought the big cake. They took some of the cake into school for us to eat on the Monday, it was very sweet.
