Family 2022

My four-year-old grandson asked for a Spiderman birthday cake. My wife baked a great sponge cake which I simply made into a three-layered base covered in blue and red fondant icing. This was then placed inside a skyscraper scene made from insulation foam covered in printouts of some of my photos of London office buildings. A small metal figure, a couple of Hot Wheels cars and a bit of metal mesh completed the scene. This photo was uploaded when I saw Andrew Trundlewagon's photo of the Spiderman re-enactor.

My granddaughter at the age of two seems to like dinosaurs. I was therefore commissioned by her mother to decorate one of my wife's chocolate sponge ring cakes with a dinosaur theme. I thought that it would be good to add a little something to the design and put a surprise in the well in the centre covered by the mini marshmallows, which were masquerading as the bubbling larva in a very active volcano.

When the cake was cut into, the marshmallow larva poured out revealing the three horns of a Triceratops. Chocolate cake by Granny, decorations by Grandad. Her home is close to an amusement park with large dinosaur models, some of which roar as you pass them. So she is not frightened by them. This is the one that greets you when you enter - www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/51713948