Racing car birthday cake and gingerbread men

I am feeling like a domestic goddess due to my baked goods at my son’s 2nd birthday party! 

DS2 is so into cars, there was no question that I’d be making a car cake.  I didn’t want to cop out and just do the ‘cars on a racetrack’ option so I chose his favourite car from our local Playcentre and based the cake on this.  I also following a tip from Juggling Motherhood who linked me to the University of Cookie – thanks!  And managed to put together some fun little gingerbread men with great icing effects. 

The whole family was impressed and my son loved it all – hooray

My tips from the whole episode:

• Use professional food colouring – the cheap stuff from the supermarket gives a sort of insipid salmon colour not racing car red.
• Keep snacking on the decorations to a minimum as you go – I felt SICK by the end of it from little nibbles of sweets and icing!
• Keep the dogs out of range – our crazy boxer helped himself to one of the gingerbread men from off the table.
• Only do it if it makes you happy – not need to go to the effort if it stresses you out and makes you feel pressured.

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