I baked this cake because it was my Dad’s birthday. He loves his Land Rover, so I thought it would be perfect. This cake helped inspire to do this blog, so I hope you like it just as much as I do.

LAND ROVER CAKE

Ingredients for the cake:

280g Butter, softened
280g Caster sugar
4 eggs, beaten
280g Self-raising flour
2tsp Baking powder
4 ripe Bananas, mashed
1tsp Vanilla essence
For the filling:

50g Icing sugar
20g Butter
1tsp Vanilla essence

Ingredients for the decoration:

1 bowl of desiccated coconut
Green food colouring
Black, White,Yellow,Red and Green fondant icing
Fudge icing
1 pack of Marzipan
20g Milk chocolate, melted

1. Heat oven to 180C. Butter two large cake tins.
2. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then one at a time add the eggs, with a little flour.
3. Fold in the remaining flour, baking powder and bananas. Pour into the tins and bake for about 30 mins, or until a skewer comes out clean. Cool in the tin for 10 mins, then remove to a wire rack. Wait until completely cool.
4. Cut the cake into four rectangles, with two longer ones. Sandwich together with buttercream. To  make the buttercream, cream the butter and icing sugar, then add vanilla essence. Put the two longer rectangles at the bottom and the shorter ones at the top. It should be beginning to take shape.
5. Roll out half a pack of Marzipan until about 3 millimetres thick. Drape over the cake, and fit it to its shape. Paint green food colouring over all car. In white icing make the windows and  number plates. Write on the numbers and letters in a black Sharpie or marker. In black icing make the tyres (and  the tyre on the back) the roof, windscreen wipers  ,wing mirrors and the frame for the doors and windows. In yellow icing, make two big headlights and four smaller ones. In red icing make four small lights to put above the number plate on the back and symmetrical on the other side.
6.  Get a tray or wooden board. Cover it in baking parchment. Spread fudge icing over it for mud. With extra bits of cake, make a bumpy grassland at one end of the board. Roll out the green icing and place over the cake-covering it. Place the desiccated coconut on a tray with baking parchment.Put as much green food colouring as you want in the desiccated coconut, until you like the colour. Put in the oven on a low heat to dry out the coconut.
7.  Spread the coconut over the grass. Put the car on the board with the front on the grass. It should be a little tilted. With the milk chocolate, splat it over the sides of the car, like mud. Using some more fudge icing, make tyre marks.  I hope you enjoy it!!