Totoro Cake

Totoro, for those of you who don't know, is a character from a a japanese film. Very cute, very cakeable.

As it is summer I wanted to make a light fresh fruity cake. Matt (of Games Day blog!) mixed up the sponge layers, three tiers gave plenty of scope for filling. The filling was raspberry jam followed by a layer of mascapone and fromage frais with some caster sugar and vanilla essense. This was topped with fresh raspberries. Used low fat fromage frais to give the filling a lighter texture, and calorie count.

The cake was covered in white chocolate butter icing with some coloured grey. The Totoro features were royal icing eyes, nose and mouth and mikado whiskers coloured black. Two spoons made the ears.