Don't you think a 4 year old would simply prefer a simple cake or maybe a
cupcake. It is afterall their birthday.


"Viviane" > wrote in message
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> You're really testing my baking skills here! I'm not a cake expert,
> however I'm sure that plenty of people in this ng are! Maybe a solid
> fruit cake or a good mud cake - you could do a white choc one. Good luck.
>
> "Dave" <not@here> wrote in message ...
>> It could, one of my thoughts is to do a white chocolate cake with white
>> chocolate icing. Another is to do a chocolate mousse and see if I can
>> make it more towards the concrete end of the mousse like spectrum.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to make the cake part more hard?
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestion.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> Viviane wrote:
>>> Could it be something with the hard white icing, like a Christmas cake??
>>>
>>> "Dave" <not@here> wrote in message ...
>>>> Hi All
>>>>
>>>> As per the title, I have been asked to make a hard white cake for a
>>>> child's birthday and I would appreciate any ideas or recipes.
>>>>
>>>> My ideas so far are to do something based on meringues or biscuits such
>>>> as a deep shortbread cake. Alternatively, I could do a chocolate cake
>>>> using white chocolate.
>>>>
>>>> The 'hardness' shouldn't be too hard as the child is only 4 so panforte
>>>> would be out of the question.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your input.
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>
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