My niece messaged me a week ago and asked if I could make her a birthday cake. My cupcake making is OK, I enjoy making them when I have the time to put into making them look half decent, which isn't often these days.
Anyway, I said Yes without thinking about it. She had sent me a couple of pictures and one was of a two tier cake. The bottom tier was a zebra print and the top tier was pink with a quilting effect around the edge.
The start of my cake baking journey!
So I went into panic mode. I had said Yes but it was also a challenge for me. I wanted to do it. I wanted to see if it could be done. I ordered supplies, borrowed cake tins from the bestie and I got on the job.
Baking and decorating cakes isn't easy with five children in the house. Well, it would be if they were children that could amuse themselves for 5 minutes without the need to call Mum or come and annoy her instead of doing as they were told. I don't have children like that! So I baked the cakes during the day and that evening I got decorating. I was in panic mode when it came to levelling the top of the cake off and also cutting through the middle to add jam and buttercream. I did it though. The children were hushed away with the cut off cake pieces and I moved on to the fondant icing.
Cutting through the middle and the start of covering the cakes in fondant icing.
The birthday girl was surprised with it the next day and I think it got her seal of approval and we all had a slice, it was edible too!!
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The finished product, a two tier zebra print and quilted effect birthday cake. Go me! |
Big pat on the back for me and my cake triumph this week. Give me a few months to get over the stress of making it and I might do it again!
check you out! that looks amazing and i bet it taste nice too! enjoy and well done! x
ReplyDeleteAw thank you. After I had said Yes I was like, what have I let myself in for! Then I thought actually I really want to try and do this now! I'm glad I did it now. :-)
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