This year I made a Steiner Waldorf inspired Toadstool Birthday Cake for Daniel.
I kept it very simple using two different sized pyrex bowls to bake the chocolate coconut flour sponge cake: coconut flour, duck eggs, honey, sodium bicarbonate (advanced GAPS only), salt, vanilla extract, cocoa powder (advanced GAPS only) .
I sliced a little off the top (which was to become the underside) of each cake after baking just to tidy them up and then joined them together using 4 cocktail sticks. The larger bowl produced the perfect top for the smaller bowl stem.
I used creamed coconut, honey and vanilla extract for the frosting applying it with my fingers rather than using a knife or a spoon. The warmth from my hands seemed to make is more manageable and I was able to produce a pretty smooth effect, I coloured the top of the the toadstool with a natural red food dye but I also used beetroot powder in my practice runs and it worked nearly as well.
For the windows and door I found images on the internet and printed them before sticking them to greaseproof paper and attaching them to the cake using small blobs of the frosting mixture warmed in my hands.
For Daniel’s Steiner Waldorf Birthday Ring from Myriad we bought a Seahorse peg (his Kindergarten symbol). For 3 of the other holes I ordered pegs (also from Myriad) and printed these Finger Puppets from www.thetoymaker.com
For the final 2 holes I simply placed the finger puppets into the holes! This saved heaps of money as each peg character costs £3.50!
The cake was simple but effective and Daniel was delighted with it.
As a final touch I lit an indoor sparkler on the top which delighted the children. You can read more about Daniel’s birthday on my other blog at http://dayswithdaniel.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/five-times-around-the-sun/
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Wow !!!!
do you have a more specific recipe someplace? The cake is beautiful and sounds delicious – would love to give it a try!
Hi Jessica,
The basic sponge recipe was an adapted version of http://thinkingoutsidebox.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/crunchy-coconut-flour-crackers-gaps-fussy-toddler-friendly/ with more honey and cocoa powder. I hope this helps.
Kindest regards
Sarah