Catherine has been learning about Greek myths in Latin lately. I know, that doesn't make any sense to me either. Anyway, they were learning about Paris and the golden apple, and were given an assignment to make something based on the story. Catherine decided to liven the assignment up by adding her favourite ingredient - CAKE! Rather than making a papier-mâché Aphrodite she elected to bake a golden apple cake. Cake version 1 actually contained apples, but sadly did not have the structural integrity required to support itself. Version 2 tasted less of apples, but had the necesary strength to stand up for itself. Laura helped out with Cake, the Sequel along with the challenging feat of wrapping a sphere in a flat sheet of icing and painting it gold. It looked lovely, and tased good too apparently. Sadly I can't verify this myself, as after Catherine had shared it with the class, teacher took the left-overs to the staff-room to ask for a second opinion on marking. Definitely worth an A+ I think. So well done Catherine and thanks for helping out Laura. Looking forward to the wooden horse made of entirely of chocolate fingers. |  |
Here's the step-by-step guide
 | We made two cakes in pyrex mixing bowls to get the basic hemispherical shape, and flattened the tops so they would fit together. |
 | Not a bad start - looking like an apple already. Now how can we stick them together? |
 | Oh I know, how about some butter icing? The perfect industrial adhesive. |
 | Preparing the surface for even more icing with some jam. |
 | Next, preparing the outer icing layer. |
 | How is this ever going to fit? A little nip and tuck required... |
 | ... and voila, a perfect snowball. Now for some gold paint (edible, of course) |
 | Nearly done. |
| | A cake worth killing a few thousand Trojans for. |