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Friday 21 November 2014

Birthday Cakes

Cakes, Cakes, Cakes
I've been challenging myself to be creative when it comes to birthday cakes.
I've made some progress as you can see.

Elizabeth's 2nd birthday January 2012
Vanilla Layer Cake from Cupcakes from the Primrose Bakery

Elizabeth's 3rd Birthday Cake, January 2013
Chocolate Layer Cake from the Primrose Bakery

My birthday, May 2013
same as above

Rebecca's 2nd Birthday, November 2013
This is Lorraine Pascale's "I can't believe you made that cake" from Baking Made Easy. It's a great cake, really yummy and looks fab. Elizabeth insisted I make it for her next birthday too. I now constantly see variations of it on the internet.
What I learned from Elizabeth's cake Jan 13, was to leave the smarties until serving. If you put them on the cake too far in advance the shells lose their crispiness.

My birthday, May 2014
Red Velvet Cake from Lorraine Pascale's Baking Made Easy. I think I made the medium cake. I did NOT use enough red colouring, so it was really just a chocolate cake.
This was my first attempt at using Fondant Icing. I got the ready to roll stuff! I didn't make the flowers.


Jeff's Birthday, October 2014
And, of course there's the Candy Cake I made for Jeff's birthday last month. It's funny because since then it seems that "surprise cakes" are the in-thing! I got my idea from a conversation with Elizabeth about pinatas, and thought it would be cool to combine the cake with Jeff's love of sweets.

Rebecca's 3rd Birthday, November 2014
Finally, last week's Mystery Machine Cake that I made for Rebecca's birthday.

I think I've made some progress!



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