Archive for June 2011
Jake’s 6th Birthday
June 20, 2011 | 
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Today is my little man’s 6th birthday. I gave him the option of any cake he wanted. This decision proved quite a difficult task, with the choice changing with each suggestion made. He finally settled on a Ben 10 cake. His choice of flavour was vanilla (quite a change from the usual mudcake). As he chose a plainer type cake, I suggested adding a filling. Jake is a huge fan of Oreo’s, so we went with Cookies and Cream filling. Using my awesome Agbay cake leveller, I levelled the 20cm round cake then made a nice cut through the centre. This is actually the first time I have filled a cake so it was a bit of an experiment for me. I filled the centre with the freshly made Cookies and Cream filling (next time, I will add double the amount of filling I think). I covered the entire cake with a thin layer of vanilla buttercream and then decorated with coloured fondant to create a Ben 10 Omnitrix. Graymatter and all other decorations were hand made with fondant. Jake loved his cake. Happy 6th Birthday Dude!! xxx
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Today is my mum’s 61st birthday. Mum loves ginger so when I came across a recipe for this ginger fluff sponge with apple sauce filling, it sounded the perfect cake for her! I haven’t had much experience with sponge cakes so I was keen for the practise.
The cakes turned out lovely and filled with all that cream. There is about 1/2 cup of apple sauce filling in the centre, covered in more cream with sponge finger biscuits around the edge. Yum. I wrapped the cake with a nice big bow and topped with some pretty little flowers. Hope you had a great birthday mum! xxx
