Help - someone started a thread about a month ago and had a very hungry caterpillar cake in their photos....

[popsycal]

DOes anyone remember....thought I hadbookmarked it to see how to make it but haven't

The thread was totally unrelated to the cake btw
:)

hopefully someone will find it for you soon

have you googled very hungry caterpillar cake and then looked at the images only? some fantastic pictures there, including some fab ones using cupcakes.

xx

oooh will look:)

Ooh, I remember the cake, but not the thread or the poster. Will keep thinking for you...

Has they definitely made it?

The M&S one is lovely

I didn't have photos on my profile, but I made one 2 weeks ago for the DTs 1st birthday.

It's dead easy. Make a normal victoria sandwich cake, fill with icing/jam/cream/whatever and sandwich together (I just used jam as the whole cake was covered in icing so thought more would be overkill).

Take a round cutter and cut a circle out of the centre of the cake so you're left with a ring of cake. Cut the ring in half, so you've got 2 'C' shapes. Cut one of those in half again. Now arrange those 4 pieces into a caterpillar shape, and place the circle you cut out at the right hand end to make the head.

Cover the head in red icing, and the body in green icing. I used 2 mini jelly babies to make the eyes, cadbury's fingers for the antenna and maltesers for the feet.

I'm at work now, but I'll put a photo on my profile when I get home, and then the instructions will make a lot more sense!

www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com/coolest-very-hungry-caterpillar-cake-11.html

is it that one? it has a mumsnet link on it

keepthe ideas coming....

still trying to recall who it was...

Bumping for you

Oh weird, marking my place here. I was wondering exactly the same thing the other day as am planning to make it for DD2's first birthday. Fabulous wasn't it?

hmmm...I have avague recollection that the original thread was to do with a knitted toy....

this one is cool too pretty!

It's my SIL .

She is Wigeon . And she did start a thread about a toy our granny-in-law knitted for her DD.

Here are the photos

OOOH! It was me!!!

I can't believe someone has actually remembered one of my threads. I have Made It on Mumsnet!

As Noah says, I did also start a thread about a knitted toy, but hungry catepillars didn't come into it.

Will find the thread pronto.

Am trying to remember where she said about how she made it - can't remember if it was here or on fb.

Oh, thank you Noah!

Here is the original thread.

Do feel free to ask me any catepillar-cake-related questions, presuming you were asking about the cake because you thought it was fab, rather than because you thought it was horrid looking and wanted to show all your friends and laugh...

Just as well I happened to be looking at active convos at this immediate moment! (ok, I suppose Noah might have texted me to alert me to the new found fame of someone remembering my cake [preen].)

Or the more mundane possibility of her looking at Active Conversations of course.

Wigeon makes Very Good Cakes by the way

Thank you! [takes bow, stuffs face]. Am currently munching my way through a rather nice apple / cinnamon / raisin / walnut jobbie with windfall apples from the garden.

Oh- that is a gorgeous cake! Wigeon- you're very talented
roffle@ 'showing friends to laugh at it'

I should probably admit that a friend and I jointly made it (in my kitchen though, with my equipment and ingredients ) as it was for the joint birthday party of a group of our 2 year olds (we all met at antentatal classes), but as she's not on Mumsnet I don't need to admit to not having done it entirely single-handedly, do I?!

I made a VHC cake also recently but it was sultana scones, placed next to each other on a baking tray so they sort of rise into each other. glace cherries for eyes and sultanas on cocktail sticks for legs. with a dried cranberry at the end. the only flaw in this recipe is that it's not green.

Could I ask re the buttercream (green) - is it piped (in rosettes) or slathered on (eg with a palette knife)?

Thanks (might make DS one for his 2nd bday- he is in love with this book!

hurray

step by step instructions needed....even for the icing bit please

Very happy to provide instructions - will post tonight (out today).

Buttercream - slathered. We did try to make a dark green and a light green and do different sections in the different greens (as Eric Carle's catepillar is various shades) but the differences in colour weren't pronounced enough. So next time I would make it more obvious.

And a top tip is to use paste colouring to get a nice deep green, not normal food colouring, otherwise you will just get a very light green. A mumsnetter told me you can get it from Hobbycraft, which I indeed did.

The pics on my profile are so small it's hard to see what it really looked like - I could email you a bigger pic if you are happy to put an email address on here?