Let them eat cake...

By Lou Lou.

Growing up, I remember every birthday being celebrated with an elaborate cake from the Women’s Weekly book of Birthday cakes. Mum would slave away for an entire day to fulfil requests for piano cakes with chocolate keys, individually placing every jellybean onto ‘the cuckoo clock’ cake, and even once requiring the aid of a brick to support the back of the ‘candy store’ cake. My point here is, although the task of constructing such outré cakes was difficult, these birthdays were made memorable by the effort … and so began my quest to bring back the elaborate party cake.

I decided to put this in to practice for our friend Tristan’s going away party. To appreciate this cake you need a bit of background information on our friend Tristan and the parties that ensue when he is the host. Tristan’s interests include: trance dancing (the best I’ve seen), experimentation, tie dyed pants … and generally being crazy in the most awesome kind of way.

So it seemed only appropriate that on this night of his going away party to combine a cake that looks like a plane is taking off, with a tie dyed interior. I was hoping that being Tristan’s party would ensure that at least a few people would be in some kind of mind altered state and my cake would provide a heightened experience of, for lack of better phrasing, some serious trip outs. Although unfortunately this didn’t occur, the cake was a definite source of excitement and was remembered of the night long after the mess had been cleaned up.

To make a tie dyed cake yourself you will need:

-Vanilla cake mix

-Food colouring (at least 4 colours)

-4 x small bowls

-Cake tin

Basically make the cake batter as per instructions... separate into the four bowls... add a different colour to each bowl... and pour each separately into the cake tin to create rainbow layers. Booyah! And you are done. Happy travelling bakerinos!!