I'm going to start by telling you I cannot take credit for this. It was all my sister's idea. One of those ideas that seem so obvious yet so great that you immediately feel jealous and want to be a part of it and claim it as your own, which I am sorely tempted to do here. However I would be lying to you if I did that so I'm confessing now. It was all Emma's idea.
But the box was my idea!
It was my brothers birthday. David is very tall, ginger yet tanned and uber cool. I don't know how he does it. He also eats a lot, as in a LOT! There was a phase where I would come home from work to find that despite having eaten an entire pizza already he was joining us for dinner. This happened everyday for months. A pizza for a snack, and he stays in shape too? Errrrr, how? Anyway...
This is where Emma's brilliant idea came into play. She decided to bake him a birthday cake, except this would be no ordinary cake, it would be a cake shaped like a pizza. Genius!
Here is the story of our pizza cake adventure:
Step 1) Bake a vanilla sponge cake. Feel proud of the golden crust colour and exclaim "It looks just like a real pizza!" Leave to cool on wire rack.
Step 2) Use the entire baking cupbards resources to make tomato coloured butter icing. Include copious amounts of blue and green food dye when it looks too pink. Convince yourself it looks darker now and stir a few billion times.
Step 3) Slice and dice licorice to create pepperoni, olive, and green pepper toppings. Get frustrated as the 'pepperoni' sticks to the chopping board and casually wash out the white stuff in the black licroice in a bowl of water, despite the water gradually turning black. Tell the green peppers well done for not being a pain.
Step 4) Use the cheese grater to grate the frozen bar of white chocolate to create the cheese. Grate more than you need and sneakily eat a little as it tastes like yummy chocolate but it's far too small to count as actual calories. Sprinkle cheese on top.
Step5) Fast becoming a catch line exclaim "It looks just like a real pizza!" Add other toppings and smile at your perfect creation.
Step 6) Decide to stick your perfect pizza under the grill to 'melt the chocolate a little to look like real cheese' and watch carefully to make sure you don't over do it. Cry as you realise that although the frozen chocolate hasn't melted, your butter icing has and it has DESTROYED THE PERFECT CAKE! Feeling devastated, laugh insanely as your sister goes into panic mode and tries not to cry.
Step 7) Scrape, scrape, scrape the cake! Can we save it? Nooooooooo! The sponge is now ruined. Panic.
Repeat steps 1-5 and create the perfect cake, not with quite the same enthusiasm, and vow never to put a perfect cake under the evil, cake-destroying grill again.
Step 8) Place the second perfect pizza cake in an authentic Dominoes pizza box and say "It really does look like a real pizza!" Congratulate yourself on a job well done and plot how to suprise Brother.
Ah well, we got there in the end. Thank you for reading!
What would you use for toppings on a pizza cake?
