Thursday, February 20, 2014

Virtual Book Club For Kids (Paul Galdone)

This month's featured author for the Kids Virtual Book Club is Paul Galdone, who has written and illustrated many classic stories from our childhood.

The book we chose to read was The Gingerbread Boy.



Lucas particularly liked the cheeky fox at the end of the story, who gobbles up the Gingerbread Boy! Because of this, we decided to make a fox cake.



We took two layers of chocolate sponge and sandwiched them together with a strawberry ganache filling made from chopped strawberries, melted white chocolate, icing sugar and butter.

The entire sponge was iced with a white buttercream, and then we piped the outside in orange buttercream using the Wilton 233 tip, leaving some of the white to show through. I used my homemade black modelling chocolate to create the eyes and nose, and some white fondant to create the ears and the centre of the eyes.



The cake was delicious, and we gobbled it up just like the fox gobbles up the Gingerbread Boy!

I am linking up with Virtual Book Club for Kids, Weekly Kids Co-Op and Mom's Library.

The original idea for the fox cake can be found here.

13 comments :

  1. i like the idea of making baked goods based off of a book you two read together! so clever! and such a cute fox

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  2. What a cute cake. I bet it was delicious too. I'm glad Lucas enjoyed it.

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  3. I loved this post! I have featured it for todays Post Of The Day at Pea Soup - A New Zealand Blogging Community.

    Hayleigh x
    www.peasoupnz.blogspot.com

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  4. I love the idea of the cake! Awesome!

    Found you via BYB

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  5. That cake is so cute! I usually can't be bothered to make my food look so beautiful, great job!

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  6. Wow! I am impressed and a bit jealous at your cake decorating skills! What a fun memory you made with your kiddos : )

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  7. That cake is too cute! Visiting from BYB!

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  8. The cake is so cute! I love doing activities with my kids based on books.

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  9. Love that fox cake - bonus points that it was as delicious as it looks!

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  10. I love the idea of a kid's virtual book club. The cake is cute too!

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  11. What a cute cake! How great would this be with a gingerbread cake? I love seeing what foods or crafts people pair up with children's books. Great ideas!

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  12. What a great looking cake to tie into this 'sweet' book. ;)

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