While Christmas is still uncomfortably far away, her brother, Christopher, made his arrival into this world on April 4.
Caroline (being her mother's daughter) proclaimed that this festive event called for a cake, that she could share with her friends at her kindergarten - and so I made her this one:
The cake was a chocolate sponge (500g butter, 500g sugar, 400g flour, 100g cocoa, 4 tablespoons of baking soda and 8 eggs = 32 servings) covered in chocolate butter cream and vanilla fondant.
Personally, I found the cake to be a little too plain, but children aged 3-6 apparently prefer simple cakes, and this one qualified (!), even though Lennart (Caroline's little friend) was horrified that Caroline's brother was missing both arms and a belly button - luckily, it's only the cake version of Christopher that suffers these handicaps, and this small oversight on my part didn't stop any of the kids from eating the cake with great enthusiasm :-)
