How to Make the Lumberjack Cake!

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Lots of tree-chopping, beard-stroking and plaid-shirt-wearing people in your life? Here’s how to make a big old chocolate, vanilla, plaid-inside Lumberjack Cake!

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Today’s post is a fun little collaboration with Scotland’s manliest brand: Lumberjack Inc.

If you haven’t heard of them already, Lumberjack Inc make a great range of men’s grooming products and clothing. Everything from beard oils and aftershaves to classic big red plaid shirts, these chaps have you manly men (or manly ladies of course) covered from beard-to-toe. Plus, all their products are made with all-natural ingredients, and are made and bottled right here in the North East of Aberdeen.

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Scot from Lumberjack Inc got in touch with me recently about making this epic and undeniably manly Lumberjack Cake. I’d never even heard of such a thing before, and even though the whole thing looked a little fiddly, I was more than happy to accept this challenge!

After a test run, I was pretty chuffed with the result. Naturally, this is Maverick Baking so this isn’t a super neat or super tricky Lumberjack Cake, sorry perfectionists! Here is a final but wonderfully rustic version of my take on the internet-loved novelty cake, and a little video to help you try it out at home too.

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Just for any fellow lurking Monty Python fans…

He’s a Lumberjack and he’s ok, he sleeps all night and he works all day.

He cuts down trees, he skips and jumps. He likes to press wild flowers. He puts on women’s clothing and hangs around in bars!

Watch me make the Lumberjack Cake in this video from my YouTube channel below, or scroll down for full instructions:

As I mentioned before, do make a visit to Lumberjack Inc soon to check out their wares if you can!

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Thanks as always for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed today’s post, I’m off to trim my beard!


11 Replies to “How to Make the Lumberjack Cake!”

  1. Did you cut the flake in half or is that the full length?
    How many flake bars did you have to use to cover the entire outside of the cake?

  2. Could you please tell me if the flake bars you used are the 20g or 32g bars? I would like to make this but I cannot find anywhere which size bars were used. Thank you

    1. Hi Samantha, I used the standard 32g Flakes for this cake!

      1. Thank you letting me know. I’ll get them ordered because I can’t wait to make it!

  3. Hello quick question! Was just wondering if I wanted reduce the number of cakes to say 2 or 3 would the measurements just be the current quantities divided by four? 🙂

    1. Hello there! If I was reducing the amount of cakes to 2 I would halve the measurements. Most of the ingredients are divisible by 4 so if you were doing 3 cakes I would use 3/4 of the amount I’ve given for 4 cakes. If that makes sense? My maths is horrible haha!

      1. Yes I think that makes sense! Thank you for your help 🙂

  4. I am making this but with a box of cake mix. The layers are way too flat. How can I fix this??? Thank you!

    1. Hello! My suggestion would be to add a little more raising agent, such as baking powder or bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)? Or even to use a narrower cake tin? If you’ve already baked the layers, then you could try doubling up the recipe and just have more layers to get the same effect? I couldn’t say for certain as I’ve never used a boxed cake mix. I hope that helps a little!

      1. THANK You for the suggestion! I added some flour to the mix and I think I used too much coloring paste which weighed it down. After a while the layer seems can easily out thicker. I will try adding some baking powder as well. ??

        1. No problem, hope it all works out, and that it tastes good above all!

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