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a logcake with style!
this cake was made as a birthday cake for by brother 10th birthday. It was camping themed and it turned out to look really realistic (what w. the mushrooms and fungi and knothole)

Posted by Jemster • Published 24th July 2008 • See Jemster's 4 projects »

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Step 1
Mix together the butter and icing sugar. Put a bit in another bowl and then mix in the dutch coco powder.
Cut your cake up as per the diagram
Step 2
Spread icing on evenly w. spatula then run fork through to make wood grain. leave for a minute then slice off a small piece to be a knothole in the wood.
Step 3
Spread the white icing over the knothole. the use the leftovers to stick together the large marshmallows to the small ones to make mushrooms. Place on cake and dust w. icing sugar.
Step 4
Finally, press chocolate pastilles into side of cake to make fungi. Now its finished!

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sweetsundae0 · Ajax, Ontario, CA · 50 projects 21st August 2011

The fungi is epic!

sewn shut 20th August 2011

where did you get your chocolate pastels? and how did you get the tops of the marshmallows to look like that?

mlc1803 m. · Chihuahua, Chihuahua, MX 18th February 2009

mouth-watering!! cant wait to try =)

Kyo-Chan · Tacoma, Washington, US 14th January 2009

Oh my goodness! I wanna bite of that!

bittyandbunny · Lincoln Park, Michigan, US · 6 projects 8th October 2008

this is great! the fungus looks disgusting/delicious!

Cez · Los Angeles, California, US · 7 projects 31st July 2008

woah the fungi on that's crazy i love it.so creative

queenfairypants · Manchester, England, GB · 75 projects 25th July 2008

the fake fungus is sooo cool, what a talent!

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Gabrielle R. · 9 projects 24th July 2008

That's great! I work with little kids all the time, and this weekend is actually someone's birthday... Maybe I'll make a log cake and bring it in for the kids!