'Pink Cake' for hubby's mum-83!

After an arduous day digging; I had decided to lift a small concrete path at the allotment and found this to have a couple of rows of bricks underneath that also needed removing, I was looking forward to a family get together and takeaway meal.  My husband had a brainwave at 6pm: "Why don't you make a cake for my mum". 

Ideally, I would have baked the cake for the birthday girl on the actual day of her birthday on Wednesday but agreed it was a good idea as we would all be together and mum would most likely not eat a whole large cake by herself! I set to work immediately but knew the time was against us as we had to leave to be at my brother in laws house, a couple of miles away, by 7.30pm latest! 

It didn't take long to bake the cake but getting it cool enough to ice was frustratingly time consuming as it came out of the oven at around 6.30pm!

I decided to press ahead about 20 minutes later and even though the cake was still slightly warm I managed to get away with buttercrumbing and icing/decorating it successfully!  It wasn't as 'polished' as I would have liked but it was presentable and I have to say, tasted good.  Everyone enjoyed tucking in after a lovely meal.

Result shown below :)

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Impromptu cake for my mum's birthday :)

I decided to make an impromptu cake for my mum's 79th birthday.

It was just a very quick Sunday morning bake which i decided to make at the last minute but mum was really pleased with it.

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Guitar Cake-18th

Hello cake lovers.....

my latest challenge was given to me a couple of months ago and gave me plenty of time to think about it!  Kerry, a friend of my sister, asked if I could create a bass guitar cake for her son, Brogan, for his 18th.

I set about drawing a template; the biggest challenge was making the proportions look right and after several freehand drawings I was finally happy with the result!

The next challenge was fitting the guitar onto a good size rectangular board but I was only able to source, locally, a 14" x 18" board and the cake was around 24" in length.  I plumped for a 20" square board deciding to locate the cake corner to corner.

I set about making 3 large rectangular sponges, obviously making a test cake for us to all enjoy first (I had just had a new cooker and needed to try it out!)

The sponges were then arranged and cut into the shape of the template in three separate pieces; the main body, the neck and the head.

After sandwiching together with buttercream a buttercrumb coating was added.  The following day the whole guitar was given a second buttercrumb coating to ensure a smooth finish and once again and left to stand until the real fun began the following evening with the icing!

The pictures below show the stages from the buttercrumb stage.

The icing took quite some time and the strings were a particular delicate piece to get right but it has all come together nicely and I am really pleased that Kerry was so happy with the outcome.

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