It actually took nearly a year of organising, getting all the family together, sorting out travel for everyone, booking accomodation big enough for us all, and then sorting out a dairy-free cake.
I was going to make one myself but it needed to be huge, taste delicious, keep well and be very well decorated.
I rang round a lot of people but they were either not interested in taking the challenge or said they could make dairy-free sponge but would fill with fresh cream!
In the end I found a cake maker in London called Tracey Taylor who runs a company called TDT Designs.
She was in touch with me constantly for about 6 months, discussing flavours and decorations and making it really personal for us.
My dad loves playing guitar and his favourite song is 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd, so Tracey said that if I sent her a copy of the music sheet, she would copy it onto the sides of the cake. And then I sent a picture of my dad's own guitar and she replicated it for the top.
She delivered the cake to our house and then we set off 200 miles for Cornwall.
My dad was very suitably surprised and even more so that we had found this huge cake to go round us all, made with a lovely dairy-free sponge and a fantastic, sweet, dairy-free buttercream. Divine!
Thanks Tracey!
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