Cheese Cake

Mice in your cake! Normally the sort of thing that would make you shudder, but in this case, knowing my friend Rachel, something that would make her smile.

As with all the best cakes of mine, I began with the standard Delia all-in-one sponge cake and poured the mix into a round tin. Then I cut out a wedge (who knows what happened to that? It may or may not have been eaten during the cooling process!) and proceeded to ice the rest in a pre-coloured yellow icing.

I iced a board in red icing and used a square cutter (or the lid of a cocktail stick container!) to cut out white icing, then stuck them down in the most logical manner I could manage. I think that turned out quite well, all things considered! Then I placed the yellow cake atop the board and added a yellow sausage to it.

But that’s the boring part, and we all know it. The good bit is my friends the mice. With the aid of the same book that gave me the alligator cake, I found a recipe for rodents.