Whiteley Creek Homestead

Oh, yes. I must explain. I can hear your, "Huh?" I began with a vision of a bunny, but as Bruce Springsteen's Hungry Heart lyrics go… "I took a wrong turn and I just kept going."  

I have two spiral notebooks that hold recipes… magazine clippings and some handwritten that I have collected since 1974. My recipe collection has outgrown my two spiral notebooks, but I treasure these tattered soiled pages… 

 
I have made a lamb cake at Easter using a mold, but I decided this year that a bunny cake would be nice. I remembered a clipping in my old recipe notebook. If you click on the photo to enlarge it, you can see how it is made using a round cake pan. However, after the cake layer is cut and positioned according to the diagram, the sides of the bunny are straight. How, without using a ridiculous amount of icing, will the bunny ever become pleasingly plump? I stepped back to ponder my next step… and I saw a car shape. I enlisted Dick's help in positioning some Newman's Own Oreo Cookies for tires and cutting some strawberry fruit leather for windows… while I snipped out bunny ears as a reminder of how it all began… and came to be. I think there are some real possiblities for variations on this car theme… headlights, exterior visor over the front windshield, a split side window, doors, grill… Oh, yes.

April 3, 2010