Welcome to the Kingdom of Simply Cakes. Queen Aileen here to tell you the story of
how she came about to create her "stacks"!
Once upon another busy day in cake land where life was it usual hectic self, Queen
Aileen was wondering if she could possibly spend some time out in the beautiful
summer sunshine. ‘Ping’ went her magic black box, a message from Queen Niamh,
who lives in a far off land… Dublin. ‘Would you like to be part of a group of cake
makers working on a project for the ‘Edible Art Culture Night’? After thinking about
this for all of a fairy second, her answer was of course ‘yes, she would be delighted to!’
And so started the Choccy Woccy Rocky Road Cake Tale. The Halfpenny Bridge,
Phoenix Park, Molly Malone to the wonderful painting by Simone Walsh, ‘Croke
Park to the Aviva’. Simone has now been promoted from ‘simple artist’ to Honouree
Queen Status of the Royal Icing Circle.
Time passed really quickly and soon it was time for the queen to use her magic
powers and create a magical piece of cake. The royal command was issued by Queen
Geraldine of Leixlip and the task to create what we in this land call the ‘Pigeon House
Chimneys.’ Fondly known as the ‘Stacks’ in the land of Dublin.
‘Oh’ said the queen, I love this blue and those chimneys need to be round, so she
used her ever faithful icing gun and piped a line of sugar paste, covered these with
strips of white paste and tucked in the sides. Rolled small strips of red and so it
began….colours mixed to match, potions and motions, a little royal piping with
her No.2 and a dusting of gold lustre dust. With this task completed she set about
making her chocolate cake that soon turned into a ‘wonky cake’, and the queen spent
a very long, long l..o..n..g time fixing this and used many many strange words when
doing this task! She was not alone as Queen Deirdre was also using these strange
words! The lesser queen’s must be careful not to upset the Queen Bee herself, Queen
Niamh of Dublin. She could shout ‘off with her head she’s one mm out’ or, she could
say ‘would you all shag off swine’s’! One could not take the chance!
Soon it all came to pass, the dust settled, the magic of sugar craft has shown it true
colours and a cake of stunning beauty and skill has been created by the Queens from
many other far off lands, including Cork, Galway, Wicklow, even Meath.
Queen Aileen would like to thank the queen bee herself Niamh and all the Queens
and Prince who gave there time to create this stunning work, the result is Magnificent.
Respect to all involve it was a privilege to work with you all.
And they all lived happily ever after.
THE END
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