Film Location Spotting - Lacock Abbey

The tiny village of Lacock made it's fortune in wool. But recently it's been used as the location of film and television. The village was transformed into Cranford     (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ps1xh) shown on BBC1 aired in 2007. Before that, the abbey was used to film some of the classroom scene in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Here are some of the photos of the Abbey when I visited on Saturday 30th June 2012. 

CAKE DECORATION

 This time last year I made a cake that was shaped like a guitar: It was a victoria sponge cake with strawberry jam and butter icing filling. The decoration was done with icing sugar, water and food colouring, jelly sweets and piped icing. It was tres tasty and lasted for days!

So this year, the challenge was to make a an OPTIMUS PRIME CAKE. This was 6 layered cake (3 + 3 layers) of victoria sponge, jam filling. I used fondant icing this year which proved more difficult but looks good. Between the jam and the icing was boiled jam (to help it stick). This made the house smell lovely one evening.