bowling trophy

…to celebrate Bowling Trophy’s 1st birthday today. I didn’t really bake it, I only scanned it from an Australian birthday cake book. It’s an echidna ice cream cake. When I posted this other spiky echnidna cake it became one of the most frequently googled items on this blog (though not as popular as how to draw horses or the Sylvers). To make it, fill a metal bowl with softened ice cream and freeze. Unmold, add a twinkie for a nose, coat the nose and face with that gross chocolate coating that hardens on contact with ice cream (because it’s full of coconut oil or wax), stick it full of chocolate fingers, sprinkle with grated chocolate and add a couple of smarties for eyes.

If you’re not partial to chocolaty marsupials, maybe you’d rather have a piece of Zappo the Alien:

Some of the search engine terms that people have used that brought them to this blog:

plaster trophy head
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Bowling Stencils
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cakes shapped like a runner

Sorry, despite the name of this blog I can’t really help you out with anything to do with bowling. To the person looking for a cake shaped like a runner, here you go:

if by “runner” you mean it in the Canadian sense of “running shoe.” If you mean it in the sense of a person who runs - once again, sorry.

My cookbook collecting has taken a very specialized turn lately - I’ve become a bit obsessed with novelty cakes. Recently I bought this Australian cake book at at a rummage sale:

If you can get past Creepy the Clown on the cover you’ll be rewarded with many unusual cakes inspired by the unique fauna of the land down under.

What child wouldn’t want Wobbly Wombat at his or her birthday party?

or Cuddly Koala?

Perry Platypus emerges from a pond of blue quondong jelly.

And of course there has to be a ‘roo.

My favorite is the echidna, an animal I’d never heard of before. Apparently it’s an egg-laying mammal (like the platypus) that resembles a hedgehog or spiny anteater. The spikes are made from chocolate mint sticks.

There are many intriguing cakes besides antipodean creatures - a billiard table, a Rubik’s cube, a pocket calculator, a snowman (which is probably as exotic to the Ozzies as an echidna seems to me), and this charming fellow called Joe Bad.

The recipe instructs “Decorate cake with licorice, studs, earring and pins, if desired.” Because choking hazards and sharp pointy metal things are what you want on a child’s party cake.