Today is the (now) 6yo’s birthday. I will at some later date write about the relative nightmare that is a birthday over the Christmas period, but for today I am going to stick with cake, and then wine, and then sleep…
Last night, after returning from the inlaws after our second Christmas dinner in two days, I started on ‘The Cake’. The vision was in place, this was to be a Barbie cake, in the traditional mould of crinoline-attired toilet roll covers of the 1970s…. Yes, I always aim high with my inspiration.
Starting baking at 9pm, tired, stuffed full of food and chocolate with a vodka and coke in my hand possibly wasn’t the best preparation, but needs must.
So the plan was to make two layers, sandwich them with jam and buttercream, dig out a hole for legless Barbie and voila, Brucie bonus, Job Done….
As it turned out, the cake didn’t rise too well, the top layer got burned, and Barbie ended up propped up by an orange pencil buried in what should have been the bottom layer which was, in turn, stuck using the buttercream to a handy tupperware pot.
I retired at 1.30am. Then got up this morning, went to Waitrose and bought a tray bake….
For Decorative Purposes Only:
Happy Birthday to your daughter (I’m assuming ‘daughter’!) I would have skipped the first few steps and gone straight to the tray bake. I am extremely good at baking of course, and my New Year’s resolution is to stop lying in the comments section of blog posts.
You assume right my dear – and don’t give up the lying, I find it very entertaining actually. Next you’ll be telling me you’re a dab hand at changing the clutch on a VW Sharan – that would truly be a godsend x
Happy Birthday to your 6 year old Xxx
Oh no, but rofl. She looks good, honest!! Happy birthday to your little one, hope she had a lovely day. I have my birthday next week, I have always had a bee in my bonnet about that and wish my parents had organised themselves better. An explosion of presents around Christmas and a drought for the rest of the year!! So many people had the cheek to give one present for both events too. Hope your daughter doesn’t hold it against you 😀 Jen
Happy Birthday to you little one I hope that she had a fantastic day xx
So is the orange pencil stuck up her bottom? I need to know.
It’s my daughter’s birthday today (27th Dec) too! I’ve still not quite forgiven myself for landing her with a Christmas birthday yet. And I paid someone else to make her cake this year…Happy Birthday to yours. S x
That cake is bloody marvellous, sure small child will love it! Hope her party is fab & you are all enjoying Xmas.
MDxxx
Aw that’s a nice attempt. Reminds me a bit of those decorative toilet roll holders we used to have when we were kids, but never mind that.
Oh and don’t forget, baking while tippling never did Fanny Craddock any harm. Carry on that way and you too will have cakes like Fanny’s.
Badum tish.
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You share too much. If you’d just posted that photo and said ‘look what I made’ we’d all have been WELL impressed!
Um, i assumed the photo was the bought cake! Says a lot about my baking ‘skills’….;-)
xxx
I am much better at decorating cakes than making them. It looks fab honey. Next time, buy a plain cake and make it your own. The decorating is the best bit anyway. 😀 And yay for your 6 year old. (M will be 6 at the end of Jan. It goes too fast doesn’t it?)