My mum came up trumps
again by baking us a traditional Christmas cake and covering it with marzipan
ready for icing.
I put together the royal
icing mix and started the whisking - it needs a full five minutes or more, so
called Eilir down towards the end (knowing he would get bored otherwise). He
got right into using the whisk, making patterns in the icing and dripping it
off the beaters back into the bowl (with lots of toilet humour references).
I must have been a bit
out with the quantities because the icing wasn't as stiff as it should be, but
we dolloped it on regardless (with it running off the sides creating a pleasing
melting ice effect).
I had bought coloured
icing to decorate play-dough modelling style. Adeola's boys may have a thing
about reindeer this year, but for Eilir it seems to be penguins! He started
with the first penguin, while I made a tree. I suggested a water pool, which
Eilir took over and then completed with the head of a swimming penguin popping
out of the water. Eilir was pleased with inventing a technique for the eyes
(putting some white icing on the end of a skewer and pushing it in to the black
icing and then pulling it out to leave a black central hole with white
outline).
We kept returning to it
to add finishing touches (originally the penguins didn't have beaks or feet!),
and finished it off eventually with Christmas hats and a sprinkling of pink
shiny sugar to give it an icy effect. It's now far too good to eat!
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