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    Go Ape

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    7. My 11 year old daughter wanted to go-ape for her birthday with some of her friends, so this cakes is themed as such. Quite easy to make, but requires huge amounts of chocolate and matchmakes - fits the brief then for a party cake, and almost matches the party tea for unhealthyness, but not quite.

    I started with the trees; These are matchmakers stuck together around a central post of chocolate fingers and matchmakers - with the joints set off so that it provides some strength. The tree tops are curly leaf parsley dipped in chocolate so that the stems stick to the tree. The parsley wilts quite quickly, so needs to be done at the last minute. The mounds hide the chocolate cakes and are covered with white chocolate colour with green gel colour. I had to make green chocolate as the fussy ones don't turn their noses up at the green desiccated coconut grass.

    The last bit was really all the ropes and ladders which are made from cola laces.The only thing to watch out for is that the laces stretch and snap with too much weight.