Mother takes on Cake Boss UK

Maria's children and 'Pinkie' the My Little Pony cake

A 29 year-old Mother of three has been in the press this week after she revealed her 4 foot 3 inch My Little Pony cake which fed 900 people.

Maria
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Maria Young, of Dorking, Surrey spent a week making the cake during the evening for her daughter Emily’s eighth birthday. Speaking to Kelly Kooks Maria said: “I had a few days of not doing it, I had to rebuild some and with all my normal mummy duties could only spend the evenings doing it.” In total she spent over 35 hours making the cake her daughter wanted to be ‘big enough to ride’.

Making the cake came with several challenges and Maria would constantly have to run to the shops to buy more ingredients. In total the cake used 86 eggs, 26kg of icing and 32 boxes of Rice Krispies. It cost £160 to make and contained over 250,00 calories.

“The Rice Krispies fell to pieces a couple of times before I realised it was too hot in our home and had to turn the heating off and open the windows to keep it cool”

Maria herself has no baking qualifications and has learnt many of her techniques over the past year from American TV programmes, “I love Ace of Cakes and Cake Boss, I would love to be able to produce something half as good as them one day.” She regularly makes cakes for her family and friends and would love one day to turn her self-taught hobby into a business.

Big cakes are not new for Maria after making a two foot high and four foot wide dinosaur cake for her son last year, it was after that her daughter wanted a slice of the action for herself and said she wanted a cake taller than her.

“I love making big cakes, I would love to make a life sized person. The bigger the better I say.”

‘Pinkie’ the pony has been featured in both Maria’s local press and the national press and has certainly made a talking point and has even lead her to a potential magazine deal. “I have been shocked by the whole response. To me it’s just a cake”.

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