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He had purple prickles all over his back ..!!

Made for a friend's 2 year old grandson. The Gruffalo is approx 14" x 14" on an 18" board. A lot of cake but you get carried away.! All chocolate sponge with chocolate buttercream. I tried adding cocoa powder to my sugar paste for colour and flavour as I've seen it done on utube but my paste was getting a bit dry. But it would have tasted lovely.

There are a huge amount of Gruffalo cakes and

I looked at a lot of photos online for inspiration and found this idea which I tweaked to suit me. But sadly I can't find the originator to acknowledge on here.

Thanks for looking xx

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Uploaded on February 11, 2015