3. Wrapped aluminium foil around the cardboard and secured it with masking tape. Aiyah, beneath the cake board, who cares? No one will look underneath. Then, flip it upright. [above right and below left]
4. After cake is baked and cooled, invert it onto an aluminium sheet (didn't do it on the board in case of icing mistakes). Make sure it is truly cooled before icing. Inverted it cos the bottom is truly flat. Did not have choc topping or frosting, so having a flat surface will suffice. [below right]
5. Arrgh, cabinets were thoroughly searched through, but only a little white icing was found. No choice, outlined the square with green icing (last drops left only!) then smeared white icing squares within. Supposed to use stencil, then the squares would look nicer. But! No time to make stencil! ds2 would wake anytime now, and I still had to cook dinner in time for Bible class at night. [below left]
6. While icing was setting, I asked ds1 to gather some of his favorite chess pieces, some white and some black. I washed them thoroughly with soap and water, dried them, then wrapped the bottom of each piece with Clear Wrap. Taped them secure with a tiny piece of Scotch Tape. [bottom right]
7. Set the finished cake on the cake board. [below left]
8. Set the chess pieces on the cake. [below right] If icing is still gooey, the chess pieces stick on very well and will stay stuck when refrigerated.
9. For storage, place cake with cake board into Aluminium tray and cover, place in fridge.
Ds2 did wake up and so the last part, I was carrying him while finishing up. I also carried him while cooking dinner, which made it terribly difficult. sigh.
Turned out that I needn't rush that much, cos the snow piled up in the parking lot of the church building again, due to the unrelenting snow fall. And Bible class had to be cancelled yet again.
