Cake in the shape of New Zealand

I am still in the search for the right cake to make for Phil's bday party. (Not even any invites have gone out, but I have set myself to the task.) This is the second cake in 3 days. OMG.

On Sunday I attempted a simple butter cake recipe from the Food Ideas Magazine which I love. However I found their cake to be too dry. My cousin, Lorraine suggested I try a chiffon cake. So off I went on the internets to try and find a good chiffon cake recipe. I came across this one from asweetpeachef.com

It looked divine, but of course, I deviated slightly from the recipe. First of all, I didn't use 2 nine inch spring form tins. And 2, I didn't use canola oil, I used olive oil (which seemed completely fine afterwards).

Phil suggested I make a cake the shape of the land of the long white clouds. Ah, what a genius idea, (I did think of it myself a week or so previously, but put the thought out of my head as I couldn't find any cake tins of the shape of NZ, nor could I find any pics of a NZ shaped cake on the web. With Phil's encouragement, I went full steam ahead.

NZ shaped cake meant, I went for a square tin and a loaf tin. I didn't have bigger tins than these, so it would have to do. The cake wasn't huge, but would probably suffice if I made a batch in a normal shape.
I also had one of those days, where I was a complete klutz. I poured the egg white instead of the olive oil into the dry ingredients and had to start over again. I knocked over a few things. But a cake did end up taking shape, and I manage to ice it with the 7 minute frosting. It did take well over 4 hours though, with the toasting of the coconut, f***up with the ingredients, cooling of the cake, cutting of the cake into NZ shaped and icing it. All happened just in time for me to go to art class at night! So here's some pics of my chiffon cake adventures...(and it does taste great, but Im not 100% sure Im going to make this cake or this shape for the day.. its a lot of work.)

coconut shreds just about to be toasted

cakes just out of the oven, this is when I really should turn them upside down straight away!

Finished NZ shaped cake

A pic of the overall country :) (just ignore the side parts - offcuts of the cake and sorry stewart island just couldn't stand up properly so it was eaten.)