I started by baking two small round vanilla/chocolate marble cakes. My marble cake recipe is just a basic sponge (6oz caster sugar, 6oz Stork marg, 6oz s.r. flour, 1.5 tsp baking powder, 3 eggs) divided into two bowls; flavour one with a tsp of cocoa powder and one with a few drops of vanilla extract. Try not to use vanilla essence unless it's all you can get - extract is natural and essence is a by-product of the paper industry, which is pretty nasty! But they both do the same job of flavouring the cake so it doesn't make a huge difference.
When you have your two cake mixes, drop a spoonful of vanilla into the cake tin and then follow with a spoonful of choc on top. Repeat until you've used all the mix and then bang the tin on the work surface to make sure the mix goes up to all edges (BE CAREFUL IF YOU ARE USING A LOOSE BOTTOMED TIN!) Then bake for 25 mins at 180, it might need a little longer, when a skewer comes out clean (no gunk) it's done.
When the cakes were cool, I covered one in grey butter cream icing to make the base of the mountain. I then chopped the other cake into square cubes, covered a few in sugar paste that I coloured a light grey and stacked them on top to make the top. I used a bit of grey butter cream as a sort of glue to hold it all together, and also to give the mountain a more rocky effect. I drizzled some white glace icing on top (and some white sprinkles!) for the snow.
Then I made Kim....
Finally I finished the cake off by writing a message in blue icing, mounting it on a small cake board, adding some green glace icing for grass and attaching some animal decorations I found in the Jane Asher shop...
Jambo!
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