I've been practicing for the wedding cake again. This time I tried out a vanilla sponge cake using the recipe I used for the wedding cupcakes. Although the recipe is for cupcakes it does state that it can be baked as a normal cake too. Anyway it was a bit of a disappointment. The cake came out flat and looked stodgy and was like a brick! The only thing I can think that went wrong was that I used the wrong sized tin.

Although it wasn't a success I used it as a chance to practice my icing skills.



Apart from the cake looking like a pancake I'm pretty pleased with how the icing went. I made sure the icing was thicker and there seems to be less bumps this time round. I also did a double layer just to make sure the icing was thick enough and to compensate for not using marzipan.



I finished the cake off with a little ribbon just to get an idea of what it would look like dressed up.

My chief cake tester was on hand to sample the end product and apart from its brick like consistency it did taste good!