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Edible with a likeness to Makka Pakka In the night garden cake topper decoration (2x2)

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My daughter’s favourite In the Night Garden Character is Makka Pakka. Therefore for her 2nd birthday I decided to attempt to create a Makka Pakka birthday cake. For those unfamiliar, the Makka Prism windshields are two transparent units that mount on the top and bottom of a Makka. They’re available in multiple colors, and you can mix and match to your heart’s content. (Be aware, though, that if you’re not the type of person who likes talking to people everywhere you go about what you’re riding, then the Makka probably isn’t for you. Since it’s electric, and it’s extremely easy to have conversations at stop lights, you won’t even have to wait until you’re parked for people to very frequently ask you all about it. I promise you that I’m not exaggerating.) The Design I made four 9″ round cakes (white velvet). One was used to carve the head (I did all of the carving by eye, no template used), two cakes were carved into the body (I also placed a wedge of cake on top of the bottom of the body to plump it up a bit) and the last cake I used for the legs and arms, the fingers were made out of sugar paste. The Osa can hold its own at 56 mph, but y ou’ll want to keep the Makka Flex and its 28mph top speed off competitive streets. The range-optimized version, aptly called the “Range,” putters along at 15 mph max. The hand levers both operate the brakes, as is also the case on the Ösa +. If you’re coming from a geared motorbike, that may take some getting used to. There’s no clutch here once again, as is the case with many electric motorbikes. The throttle is on the right grip, and once you have throttle and brake actuation sorted out in your mind, the riding process is as smooth and simple as you’d expect. Disc brakes front and rear work perfectly well for their intended application on this bike.

I made this delicious Makka Pakka Cake for my darling son’s first birthday, everyone said I should post it so others could see how creative I was and the end result was just brilliant. CAKE is looking high and low to find the next big thing in electric scooters. Its idea? Mega modularity. With cities and urban mobility changing faster than expected with cleaner and more efficient solutions, we have been eager to share the Makka: An urban short-haul vessel, compact in size and price, reaching a wide audience in the process of deciding what their future means of transportation will be.” I hired a oval tin for his head and a rectangle tin for the body, hands and legs. I decided on a delicious white mud cake recipe as it holds shape more and you can store in an air tight container and keep in fridge up to a week before icing as mud cakes get better with time. I baked it four days before and was so moist and yummy!The digital display on the Cake Makka is thankfully much easier to read if you’re wearing sunglasses than the one found on the Ösa +. You can see a simple speedometer, a battery gauge, an odometer reading in the upper left corner, and what ride mode you’re currently in. With its somewhat humble performance, the Makka’s adaptability is its clear strength. You might not want to load it down too heavily, but you can equip it to carry a broad range of gear. Still, the Makka can make it from A to B: The Flex’s range is 30 miles, and the Range can make it 35 miles max. Charge time is not yet specified. Makka Mods First of all I drew a rough sketch of what I wanted it to look like. I decided I would need two square cakes (approx 20cm tins). From there I worked out how to cut the cakes to make Makka Pakka. I cut out the body from one cake and the head, legs and arms from the other cake. The cakes were a basic sand cake recipe doubled. Only the CAKE Makka Flex will be available in the United States. The Makka Range’s low speeds might work for some European riders or those in super dense urban environments. But it’s hard to imagine doing much with a vehicle that can’t go faster than the average person can pedal a bike.

The decorations on either side of Makka’s head and on top were made by flattening balls of sugar paste. The one on the top of the head was secured by a strand of spaghetti as there was no board there for it to rest on, the colours of these flattened balls were made by adding more dark brown paste. The eyes were made from circle cut outs and the mouth was indented with a ball tool. Once the carving was finished I coated each part in both glaze and butter cream then laid the first layer of sugar paste – when this was dry I laid the second layer, I achieved the colour by adding some dark brown food paste colour to the white sugar paste. Again, each part was iced individually and then pieced together after. I then drew up a rough outline of Makka Pakka on baking paper placed on top of the cakes and cut with a sharp wet knife. It did crumble a little but as I was going to use butter cream icing it was no big deal as you can easily cover any flaws. The Makka starts with a trimmed-down frame designed to attract a broad spectrum of users and maximize urban mobility. Stefan Ytterborn, CAKE CEO and founder, explains it like this: The Cake Makka uses a direct-drive, hub-mounted electric motor. The company says it’s a 3.6 kW (or 4.8 horsepower) unit, and makes a claimed 60 newton-meters (or about 44 pound-feet) of torque at the rear wheel. The battery is a 31Ah unit, giving a claimed range of about 33.5 miles of mixed city riding. If you want to take the battery inside with you to charge, you can—or you can leave it in the bike and charge it there. Either way, it uses a standard household outlet to charge from zero to 80 percent in about two hours, or to 100 percent in three hours. Display, Ride and Brake Modes, and ConnectivityThat’s why CAKE cut the Makka’s weight down from its predecessors — the Osa weighs 159 pounds to the Makka’s 132. The weight reduction resulted in decreased power. CAKE wants the Makka to be the future of urban transportation. And it’s making a strong case with its trim profile, plenty of add-ons for toting gear, and the sustainability of an electric platform.

The icing I used was ready made icing in white and chocolate. To make the right colour for the most part of the cake I mixed together a portion of the chocolate icing with the white icing, rolled it out and then put it over the cake cutting off the excess.

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