A WODONGA cake shop has celebrated its second birthday like any self-respecting toddler.
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Miss Naked Cakes owner Clare Doolan flicked through the The Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book before settling on just the right cake for the occasion.
Surely, for two, it could only be a choo-choo.
Ms Doolan spent 36 hours recreating The Australian Women’s Weekly classic goods train cake.
She used a mixture of mud and red velvet cake on the special project.
“I chose it because it’s a Women’s Weekly classic,” Ms Doolan said.
“Then I’ve added some lights and smoke to finish it off!”
Ms Doolan said her mum Beth McRae had recreated the classic birthday cakes when they were growing up.
She said she and sister Lauren McRae often pored over the cake book.
“We used to go through the book and pick out our birthday cakes years in advance,” she said.
“I had the piano cake for my 10th birthday; I didn’t play but I loved the cake.”
Mrs McRae said she had also made the sweet shop, witch, butterfly, ballet scene and numbers 4 and 7 from the classic book.
“I used to love making the Dolly Varden cake for them,” she said.
Ms Doolan and her sister opened at the Albury Wodonga Community College bakery part-time in March 2015 under the name Miss Naked Cakes and Foods, so-called because they supplied undecorated cakes to Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide and Brisbane and an organic line of wholefoods.
