We have a Women's Weekly cake book!! *bounces up and down* Source of many a happy childhood memory, as my wonderful sister would make a lion cake for my brother, and a fairy castle cake for me, and and and....yes, amazing stuffs. Yours sound awesome though. Must be from an updated version to the 80s edition we have, I think I know all the cakes in there off by heart...
Speaking of jealous people with cakes with jelly on them and other mums making them...friend of mine when I was little got one of those, withbluejellyontopandlittleswimmingplasticpeopleandchocolate bulletsforfencearoundtheoutside, and I thought it was the best thing *ever*, and my mum *never* made one for me, no matter how much I asked. :-( I won't talk about the year she went on a health-craze so I got a plain iced (not frosted- ICED) cake with no food colourings or fillings or anything. Except some little faintly-red balls for prettiness on top... Sigh. But then, other years were, while not WW fanciness, good old-fashioned ones like a mocha-creme sponge cake or a sachertorte or a cream cake or something, so that was always good. :-)
Mm, now I feel like baking a cake. Might have to find my special book with choo-choo trains and pirate cakes and racing-car cakes...
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Source of many a happy childhood memory, as my wonderful sister would make a lion cake for my brother, and a fairy castle cake for me, and and and....yes, amazing stuffs.
Yours sound awesome though. Must be from an updated version to the 80s edition we have, I think I know all the cakes in there off by heart...
Speaking of jealous people with cakes with jelly on them and other mums making them...friend of mine when I was little got one of those, withbluejellyontopandlittleswimmingplasticpeopleandchocolate bulletsforfencearoundtheoutside, and I thought it was the best thing *ever*, and my mum *never* made one for me, no matter how much I asked. :-(
I won't talk about the year she went on a health-craze so I got a plain iced (not frosted- ICED) cake with no food colourings or fillings or anything. Except some little faintly-red balls for prettiness on top...
Sigh.
But then, other years were, while not WW fanciness, good old-fashioned ones like a mocha-creme sponge cake or a sachertorte or a cream cake or something, so that was always good. :-)
Mm, now I feel like baking a cake. Might have to find my special book with choo-choo trains and pirate cakes and racing-car cakes...