The gun itself was made using a matchmaker encased in the same green icing! I then made a hole through the icing cover and into the cake big enough to insert the gun far enough so that it was held securely in place. I also added a few molded pieces and incised lines for extra effect. I used rolled out green icing, some plain and some rolled with the basket weave rolling pin, for the details. I know it is supposed to be a basket weave pattern but I thought it was quite effective! I then cut two long strips of the same width and stuck them on to the cake using a little edible glue for the underside. I then used my fine basket-weave rolling pin (for use with icing) to carefully roll over the icing once to get the pattern. First I rolled out some of the green icing nice and thin in a long roughly rectangular shape. Next I made the green icing which I rolled as thin as I could and covered the whole cake. I then ‘stuck’ them all together using butter cream so that the main cake was basically a big chocolate sponge filled with butter cream. I carved the smaller cake to form the top piece of the tank. I then carved them to form the main body of the tank. When the cakes were completely cooled I leveled them both off and placed one on top of the other. I used my usual chocolate sponge recipe which uses really good quality dark chocolate – I think melted chocolate is so much better than cocoa powder in a cake. I made two large rectangular chocolate sponge cakes and one small rectangular one. It’s not something I had ever tried to do before so thought it would be fun to have a go. He loves all things military and really wanted a tank for his birthday cake. This is the tank cake I made for a friend’s little boy’s 10th birthday.
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