A cake for a 3 year old
Written by Elisabeth on July 20, 2009 – 15:55 -One of my nephews turned three last week, so my husband and I decided to make him a special treat: A chocolate cake based on the ever popular Norwegian children’s book character Gråtass. Gråtass is a tractor commonly found on Norwegian farms, and my nephew loves these books - and the real life tractors as well.
For this cake I bought a tractor shaped pan from Wilton. I had never used any of the shaped pans from Wilton before so I was very apprehensive when it was time to remove the cake from the pan, but it came out nicely.
Then I decorated the cake with coloured home-made butter cream until my piping hand nearly fell off. I also made a total mess of my smallish kitchen mixing all the different colours and stacking stuff all around. But it was great fun, and even if it had been double the work it would have been worth it. Nothing says “job well done” like a three year old when he realises his uncle and aunt had made a Gråtass cake just for him!
The now famous Gråtass cake
Tags: baking, cake, Gråtass, Wilton
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