Here’s the birthday boy.
I was going to bake him cupcakes and make a cupcake tier to put the cupcakes, but Abram was sick again, so I couldn’t find time to make the tier. Anyway, making cupcakes require lots of time because I only have a small oven, so I have to bake in batches. I finally decided to bake him a simple butter cake , the same recipe as the LOVE juice cupcakes, reduced the sugar to 120g , and replaced the LOVE juice with 200ml Buavita mango juice. The mango juice flavor did not taste too strong, in fact, you wouldn’t be able to tell that this cake was using mango juice, I didn’t try to make it a mango flavored cake, I was just looking for other alternative to flavor the cake beside using vanilla essence because I think the essence tastes a bit bitter when used too much. I should buy vanilla extract but the price stops me from doing that =)
The theme of the cake was jungle. I got the idea from a video in youtube from wilton decorating. I was planning to make 2 layers of butter cake, put a layer of whipped cream and grated cheese between the 2 layers and decorated with colored whipped cream and animal candles.
The first layer came out nice……..I put it on the cake board smoothly. No problem at all.
Then I made the second layer. When it was done, hmmmm…….now, how should I put this on the top of the first layer??? I decided to put it on a plate then picked it up carefully with two hands and put it on the first layer. And…………..it broke!!!! Haiiissssss!!!! What to do???? I didn’t have the time and material to make a new one…..T_T…… Finally I made a pudding, It would be a pudding cake. I had canned longans and lychees and made longans pudding. The pudding was put on the top layer.
Pheeewwww……Thank goodness the pudding set quickly in the fridge, and it didn’t break when I took it off the cake pan and slide it from a plate on to the cake. *I took it off while praying “please God help me” cos it stucked in the pan, I had to tap it on the counter several times before it slide off*
Here’s the finished cake. I didn’t cover the sides with whipped cream, used chocolate wafer instead because I thought it was easier (actually, I ran out of wafer to cover 1 side so I had to go to a mini-mart near-by to buy more wafers, so, clearly, it wasn’t as easy as I thought).
The pond should be blue, but I couldn’t find a blue coloring anywhere, so I use Fanta blueberry, but it wasn’t blue enough. Well, it wasn’t bad either……
Curiously looking at his cake.
Got excited when we started singing Happy Birthday ^_^
With grandma.
Actually, I took some more pictures, but they were blurry because the object (Eben) couldn’t stay still. =D
Happy Birthday Eben!!! Kiss from Papi Donny, Mami Lois and Abram.
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