Pingu Birthday Cake

by Jules
(Christchurch, New Zealand)

My two year old daughter is crazy about pingu, so what else could we make her for her birthday. My husband and I struggled to make the pingu model out of fondant icing and a tiny paintbrush to paint him with food colouring - several glasses of wine and much giggling later, this is the result...

It's a chocolate sponge inside, with roll out 'snow' icing, dusted with icing sugar.

The look on our daughter's face as she instantly recognised and LOVED the results was well worth the effort.