Birthday

Hey

Last week was my mum's birthday and mine is this week, and we both had the same idea for a cake so we ended up baking a joint one. It also allowed me to practise icing big cakes as I don't get lots of opportunities for it.

We had two tiers - the bottom is chocolate Guinness (link to recipe on my sister's blog) and the top is carrot (it was a packet mix as I was baking a lot this week).

First I iced both cakes with blue fondant and stacked the carrot on top of the chocolate.

I then took green fondant and rolled strips out and then cut wavy edges across the top to create a hilly feel. I did each tier in 3 sections of green to make it easier to handle.

To go around the top of each tier, we created bunting. I hand made mine by cutting out triangles of fondant and then stripes and dots in different colours and stuck them to the triangles with vodka. I only made a free as it was very fiddly to do (especially the dots). My mum used a mould that she bought from Lakeland and created lots and much quicker than me. She made block colour bunting and also mixed colours to pick up the pattern in the bunting mould.

My hand made bunting

 

My favourite colour combinations

I wanted to make a bake off tent to go on top, but that was going to be too time consuming for this week so we just added letters and a pinwheel to the top.

xxx