Sergeant Peppermint's Chocolate Button Cake

Hi Lablander,

If you can remember what it looked like, just make a cake, red velvet or otherwise, flavour & colour some fondant icing add the buttons and away you go!
you can buy mint flavouring in stores or online these days, or in your local sugarcraft shop, good luck!

Thank you Geraldine62 - that's the problem, I can't remember what it looked like! I do remember, however, that the peppermint icing was buttercream (topping and filling), so I can make that. And if the search fails, I'll just improvise - but it would be a lovely surprise to reproduce the original exactly!

Would your DD remember what it looked like, from all those years ago ?

Probably not, go ahead and improvise. After all, it's the though that counts

ninathenana is right, it's the thought that counts,

Tell your daughter that you have tried to re-create the original if she doesn't twig, (my guess is she will,) and if she mentions that it's not the same (which she won't) tell her you've tweaked it for the 21st century!

Most of all have fun creating good luck

A belated thank you to Geraldine62 and ninathenana - since I posted I've been looking at recipes and topping (and fillings) and I now have the makings - I hope - of a very grown-up version of that cake! I'm pretty sure that the daughter (and the daughter;s husband) will love it!

Have you any photographs of the 5th birthday party Lablander ?