to the shops

More maths and some guess work gives me a shopping list that reads:


20 packs of butter
3kg icing sugar
4kg caster sugar
72 eggs
4kg self-raising flour
some milk


This is based on my estimate that I will need 6 times the basic Cakebook sponge recipe (halfway down the FAQs page), plus the associated buttercream icing.


Also needed is ready-to-roll icing: 3 big packs white, 3 medium packs dark brown, 1 medium pack light brown. The latter purchased from the otherworldly Hobbycraft in Team Valley. And while I was there I came across railway modellers’ grass, thus turfing the board in one easy go, with the aid of a scalpel and double-sided tape.

Baking at the weekend...