This post is all about the birthday cake and cupcakes I made from my friend Ellie who asked me if I could make her a coconut cake for her birthday as she loved the one I made her last year. She also asked if I could make some cupcakes for her to bring in to work to give out to her friends. I was so excited to make these cakes for her as she left the decoration up to me. She likes all thinks pretty like the unicorn trend and told me she loves beauty and The beast. I have been so desperate to make a unicorn cake or cupcakes as they are so cute and colourful! But I decided to go with a Beauty and the beast theme instead. After browsing on Pinterest I was inspired to make a Mrs Potts & Chip cake as it was adorable! This cake consists of a coconut cake with raspberry jam and coconut buttercream, covered in fondant icing and decorated. I had a few problems with thins cake! For some reason one half of the ball cake completely crumbled and I had to throw it in the bin! This meant baking another cake. I filled, sculpted and buttercreamed the cake to look like a tea pot and placed a large dowel through the centre to support it a bit more. I used a mixture of fondant and modelling paste for the handle and spout of the tea pot. Chip is made entirely out of modelling paste as it is firmer. I used edible icing pens and edible gold lustre for the detail. I carried on with the beauty and the beast theme with the cupcakes. When baking the cupcakes I had another huge disaster! For some reason my Cupcakes behaved like a volcano! They came out the oven looking like a Yorkshire puddings and had the texture of a biscuit. These were my usual vanilla cupcake, filled with raspberry jam and a soft fluffy yellow vanilla buttercream. I piped these as best I could to look like roses. I topped half of the cupcakes with an edible handmade red fondant roe and left the other half plain. I finished these off with edible silver lustre for that extra glitz. Ellie loved them both so much! She gave me the best reaction I have ever had when giving a cake! She looked like she was going to cry! Said "oh my god" a lot and face timed all of her family to show them the cake. It was the best feeling ever!!
The cupcakes went down a treat too! Everyone kept coming up to me at work and telling me how nice they were. My buttercream had the most compliments with it being called "dreamy" and the best fluffy buttercream they have ever had! I couldn't wish for a better reaction then that! Although i had a few disasters it was well worth the effort to see Ellie's face and hearing that everyone enjoyed it!
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As my birthday was coming up soon...( I don't know if you've noticed) I thought I better start thinking about what I want my birthday cake to be this year. And yes I know it might sound a little weird or sad baking your own birthday cake but I actually love doing it! It means I can go all out on a cake that know I will love and can make it exactly how I want. I love baking cakes for other people but there is something satisfying about making one for yourself.
Last year I made a triple layered chocolate, caramel and vanilla drip cake (shown below) that was great but the chocolate cake was a bit dense and dry which is disappointing plus I still haven't got the drip on a drip cake right yet. |
Welcome!Hello, I'm Laura and I am a 25 year old foodie with a passion for baking! When I'm not thinking, blogging about food, reading cooking magazines, searching Instagram for food porn I am usually cooking it!
This Blog started a few years ago now as a place for me to store recipes that I like and that work! I love to take pictures of food and I am on all of the social network site as polkadotcooking. I hope you enjoy my site and give me any feedback if you make anything :) Archives
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