My son loves playing with his army figures and requested a first world war battlefield cake for his 11th birthday. Whilst I thought it might be a little macabre to sing Happy Birthday over ‘dead’ plastic infantrymen, I went with it! I baked an 8 egg standard chocolate sponge mix in a 13 inch by 11 inch roasting tin lined with baking parchment. Then I just made a batch of standard chocolate butter cream and dyed some desiccated coconut green for grass. I cut out a trench and a dugout from the sponge with a sharp knife and spread the whole cake with the chocolate buttercream. Then I crushed some digestive biscuits and lined the trench and dugout with the crumbs. I piled up some of the trench offcuts to make a mound and covered it with more buttercream. Then I scattered over the green coconut. I then covered the sides with mini chocolate fingers and reinforced the sides of the trench with orange Matchmakers to look like wooden planks/logs. For the rest, I just positioned my son’s plastic army bits – soldier figures, tank, etc with some men ‘dying’ in No Man’s Land in the middle. My son and his friends thought it was amazing and the whole thing was so easy – it took me less than 40 minutes to complete all the decoration including making the buttercream. If I can do it, so can you! The look of amazement on your son’s face will make it all worthwhile – so much better than shop bought cakes!
Coolest WII Battlefield Cake
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