This cake was made in preparation for a Year 12 fieldtrip to
Dorset, it also handily tied in with a student’s birthday on the first night of
the residential. In an attempt to
crudely show variation in rock type and to use as a basis for the theoretical
arguments over the formation of Lulworth Cove, I branched out and used a
variety of cake types, so that not just the appearance but also the texture was
representative of the changing geology.
Method
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One portion of sponge mix had blue food
colouring added for the sea (the usual blue butter icing was applied over the
top)
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One portion was hobnob-biscuit cake
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One portion was carrot cake
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One portion of the staple chocolate brownie
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Butter icing for holding together the rock
layers
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Icing pens for the labels and LSD arrow
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Desiccated coconut for white water/wave action
Application
For post-16, best used by placing the cake in the middle of a
large piece of paper on the floor, giving each student a marker pen and getting
them to label and annotate the cake as if it was a diagram. Following this,
each student must answer a relevant exam question which must be peer assessed
before anyone is allowed a slice!
