Showing posts with label Birthday cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birthday cake. Show all posts

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Birthday Cake Series: #5

I completely forgot I never showed you out 4th birthday cake.
Yes, yes, it is cake #5, because this cake messed up our numbering.


P had one request, he wanted a cake to be really, really big.


His face expression was priceless!

Cake had P's name and age stamped all over it.


I used the same recipe as here, plus the food coloring but top of the cake was fondant (to be able to stamp) and layers were fixed together with homemade rose hip marmalade.

And that is that on the cake #5. My next cake is due in December...

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Birthday Cake Series: #4

P will soon be 4, but the real cake #4 is actually Baby I's cake #1. Since I only ever make cakes for my boys birthdays, I will stay with chronological numbering, which basically means, cake #4 of my life.

You have already seen a glimpse of this cake here, but I will tell you now how it was made. See, unlike Cake#1 which was a no-bake cake, Cake #2 which wasn't really a cake at all, and Cake #3 which was a super cool mostly no-bake cake p is still talking about, cake #4 was my first REAL, made-from-scratch, baked cake.


The recipe I used was the Funfetti cake, and it is really tasty. It is a simple, no fuss recipe for a great looking cake and it was supposed to look like this:

but for reasons exceeding my culinary knowledge, it came out like this:


The sprinkles we have here don't seem to be very good ones, so they bled all over batter as soon as I put them in. The recipe also calls for bleached flour which I never even knew existed. All considered, the cake still came out perfect. It looked just the way I imagined it on the outside, and it tasted great!

I also decorated some Oreos with leftover icing and sprinkles. Boys probably loved that part best.



The cake wasn't bad either though



Bella loved it too:)