Birthday Cake

Yet another Frozen birthday cake.
Nope not complaining, in fact it is pretty easy compared to the ones using gum paste or fondant.
I mean sure it looks good and everything but eating it... ummm??
I like the edible images, limited sometimes but it works for me.

Never mind, each to their own taste and preferences.

As requested, the icing is buttercream, and baby pink. Although I noticed most Frozen cakes are either pale blue or white - snow or maybe to resemble ice??
No matter, I do as I am told LOL so pink it was, after all the birthday cake was for a cute little girl.

For the decoration, I piped pink stars at the border and topped them with colourful silver, gold, pink and blue balls. For the rest of the cake I used sugar craft (not made by me, but bought at Bakewell) butterflies, colourful chocolate sprinkles and of course the cast of the famous Disney animation - Frozen.

The  cake itself was chocolate sponge cake, again by request. It was a four layered cake, (2 recipes of said cake) using square shallow 12x12 in cake pan. I trimmed the edges slightly to fit the 11x11 in cake board.

Happy Birthday Putri!!

Birthday Cakes!

If only the month of June was like the rest of the year...
Hah! I wish.
For this month I baked 3 birthday cakes, yep even for me that's quite a record and achievement.
I enjoyed it but wished I had more time for the Ben 10 cake. It was a rather last minute thingy... but I was told the birthday boy loved it and had a good time. He is only 7 and perhaps not quite aware of how horribly made the cake actually was!!

The first was a (another) Black Forest Cake, a birthday cake for my mum.
I made her one last year and thought that maybe this year mum wanted another cake or not at all...
She has her times when she'll just devour cake and there are times when she won't even look at one.

So another Black Forest it was and not it wasn't a surprise cake affair as we went shopping for the ingredients together! She kept saying "make it nicely" "make it properly" each time she entered the kitchen when I was baking the cake. Talk about pressure ~ but Thank God the cake came out well, in fact very well! Mum loved it so much that she ate quite a lot, more than her usual 'one small piece'.

Next was a Frozen Birthday cake for my lovely beloved niece who turned 5! Oh how time flies and she has definitely grown! The frosting was fresh cream, with a light hint of pink and edible pics of her favourite character of the Disney animation.
Yep, she enjoyed the cake I think but I believe she enjoyed eating Elsa and Anna more!!

 Ben 10 was almost similar but I used green instead and M & M for deco to go with the edible hero.
Like I said, I wished I had more time and would have decorated the cake much more.

All three cakes were chocolate sponges.
Recipe as below:

Chocolate Sponge
source : I can't remember

Ingredients
5 eggs (I reduced it to 4 as I used Gred A eggs)
170g castor sugar
1 tsp heap ovalette
100g Super Fine Flour (All purpose also can but SFF is better)
1 tsp (heap) baking powder
40g / 1 1/2 Tbsp Cocoa powder
70g oil (corn or any vegetable oil also can)

Method
In a bowl using hand mixer beat eggs, sugar and ovalette until light and fluffy.
Gradually add in the flour and cocoa powder, (I did three times) and continue beating at low speed.
When just combined, drizzle in the oil, beating briefly only.
Next, using a large spatula slowly fold the mixture and carefully not to knock out the air.

Pour the batter into prepared greased and lined cake tins. For the Black Forest I used 3, 22 cm cake tins to get three layers. For the Frozen and Ben 10 I only used 2.

Bake at 160 for 15 min. or until cook. Careful not to over cook the sponges or you'll have a very dry cake.


Happy Baking.