Cake that will keep for camping birthday

[hettie]

Hi am trying to make a wow cake for dh's birthday. Thing is it has to be able to be assembled on the 2nd day of a camping trip. I have a cool box, but anyone got any good suggestions for what would travel/keep?

Brownies - Nigella has a picture of them made into a kind of birthday thing: brownie cut up into squares and piled in a kind of artful pyramid, and candles stuck into lots of the squares. Could dust icing sugar over the top.

Cornflake crisp cake? Not a cake as such but the kids would love it :)

I would do a tray bake and ice it green then make camping stuff to put on it a tent/a hammer/bottle of beer, a football etc [Madeira will hold for a good few days I remember my Mum baking Madeira cherry cake, seed cake and plain as well as a fruit cake before our trip each year]

lemon cake/lemon almond cake/orange cake.

Nigella has one recipe. THere are a few similar ones as well.
As they're often soaked in syrup, they actually improve with keeping. I made a lemon and almond cake and transported it to Scotland last year for a wedding - was really nice!

mmme
like the ideas- you lot are great at this
lemon/orange almond cake may would be popular.....will see if I can google a recipe
do they rise up do you think or are they more flat cakes.....

OH and my mum used to bake them in a sweet tin with a lid so that she could turn them out and put the cake on a dollie, that way she could open the tin and look posh they travel fine so long as no one turned the tin the right way up

I'd make a gingerbread cake as they actually need to be kept for a while to get really good and sticky. And taste fantastic, with lots of stem ginger and ginger syrup to make it as gingery as possible. Or chocolate gingerbread is really good too. Lots of fruit loaf type cakes keep well too.