It's the child's specification. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.

It also needs to have an elephant, a cow and a horse on top once again
as per child's instructions ...

R. Fizek wrote:
> Don't you think a 4 year old would simply prefer a simple cake or maybe a
> cupcake. It is afterall their birthday.
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> "Viviane" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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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