'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 :)

All for now cake lovers :)