For my Father-in-law's birthday, I am making him a shooting cake, complete with pheasant flying over the top. Eek! What have a I let myself in for?! In my mind a have a green cake, with bushes and trees, and a man leaning against the side of it pointing a gun skywards. Over the top will be hovering a pheasant in flight. Ooh, I could even add his dogs! Let's see how it goes...
Well, that was written a few days ago. The cake has been made and demolished. It did have a pheasant in flight, but being for family, I left it until the last minute, so as you look at the photos
please bear in mind that much more care is taken over cutomers' orders!
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| A pheasant in flight! Didn't realise he looked blind until now- really should have added black centres to the eyes! |
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| Pretty shoddy man and dog. Lessons learnt about leaving things until the last minute! |
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| Trees (with stray icing sugar!) |
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| Overall effect, not too bad! |
With a little more time, the man could have been much better, as could the dog. If I'd done a bit more forward planning I could have made a much more accurate gun, and maybe even had him pointing it skywards as intended- maybe next year!
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