Treasure chest birthday cake

Daddy and Mummy made Andrew a treasure chest birthday. We were rather pleased with our effort so we have given it a separate blog post.

Here is the finished cake.

The surprise comes when you cut the cake open to find the treasure.

Now how was this done. It was mostly Daddy's idea. We started with a loaf tin shaped cake. We cut both ends off to form a base for the cake. Then we put a cavity in the cake by first cutting a square about 3 cms deep and then put a slit in each side to go through where we had cut the square. Then we were able to lift the piece of cake leaving the cavity as the photo below shows. We added the piece we had removed to the ends to form a base for the cake. We did have to cut some cake off to make it level.

We filled the cavity with lollies. Then place the base pieces on top and carefully turned it over and placed on the serving plate before icing it.