John Deere more like expensive

John Deere.....Now Deere as in expensive is very fitting.I had to buy a ball of stuff to make it. I've had an obsession with tractors since... well I can remember... last year ha only messing since I was like able to walk. Bombing it around the footpath at home pretending to pull the handbrake yep that was  me falling off cut knees every few days living life on the edge.  Then there were the good aul years of baling hay in the farm well supplying tea and sandwiches and stooking the bales and of course getting a half day from school:). Then there was the year of picking spuds....now I have never felt pain like that before. All in all tractors are great and I've had a secret fascination about them for years. So I decided why not have a go at making one.Out of cake now not metal! One problem I've no idea where to start hmm. OK so after quite a lot of deliberation I decided to make two sponges one in a loaf tin and one in a square tin. The loaf tin was for the bonnet ya see ah ha it was all going to be just fine. I bought all my dyes and sandwich bags, icing, holy water extra.

Once my sponges were done it was carving time. Now I do not possess a carving knife however I do have a bread knife so I put the bonnet in place. From the square tin using 2 cutters I cut out four wheels. Genius! Then some squares to stack on top of each other to create the cabin. As I began stacking the layers they began to slide...... as John Kenny would say 'twas like they had a half a bottle of whiskey insiden em like'. I used a bit of icing to stick them together. Anyway shur the icing will sort everything I thought to myself . Meanwhile the entire house could have fallen down around me I was in the zone if interrupted god knows what would have happened.

I began by colouring the vast amount of icing green.Don't ya wish icing grew on tree's? I know I do I'd save a small fortune. A tractor has to be green especially my prize John Deere. Thinking man wait till I'm finished this is going to be amazing. As I started to place the icing on the cake I noticed it wasn't exactly straightening the shape out but hey its early stages. I got my grey icing did the wheels,realised they looked flat as in punctured. Popped my grill on few eyebrows etc to add character but as I was adding more it was starting to lean more and more like the leaning tower of pisa.

No miracle was gonna straighten this bad boy lol In the end it looked more like a vintage tractor that I was looking at after consuming a bottle of wine on an empty stomach after not sleeping for a week. On the plus side I got some laugh out of it and practice makes perfect right lol