It's number one step daughter's birthday in 3 weeks and I am tasked with making the cake. She wants a chocolate cake and has asked for me to surprise her as to the "theme". I'm therefore making a cat for her.
Can you lovely ABers please suggest
1) a really nice chocolate cake recipe - I was hoping to do something like a whisked sponge rather than a bog standard chocolate victoria sandwich since that would be lighter and I hope would keep better. I need to be able to cut it though to make the various shapes I have made a pattern for.
2) What I can glaze the cake with to stop crumbs? I am icing with buttercream but I know that sponge cake can crumble when icing. I thought that something like an apricot glaze (which I would normally use for a fruit cake would be too heavy and stand out with the flavour). But am open to better suggestions.
my friends twins have just had a cat litter cake for their 12th and loved it... i know it sounds mad but look at this link - just replace german cake mix with normal cake mix if you cant find it at the super market
http://goodcats.com/catlittercake.html
although knowing not everyone would want to eat it (this was a mistake everyone tucked in) she also made a choccy sponge cake - this got demolished the day after the birthday