Bake: Mum’s Birthday Cake

After I’d finished work, and before Little Mr Mr arrived into the world, I did a one-day cake decorating class at the very amazing Decorative Sweets. It was such a fun day and I learnt SO MUCH about cake decorating that I have spent the last few months since, jumping at every opportunity to make a cake. One of my first ones was for Mum’s birthday. She is not too far off a very special birthday, and so I thought I’d practice for the big one next year.

– My first cake…made at the class –

I wanted to impress and set about some online research when I came across a fab blogger, Bronnie Bakes, who uses videos to demonstrate her awesome cake making techniques. I pretty much used her website to come up with a caramel mud cake, layered with Italian Meringue Buttercream, in both vanilla and caramel. It was then covered in a layer of white chocolate ganache and finally, a thin layer of fondant and decorated with stars and hearts. It really was a first attempt at layering and rolling fondant, but I am really happy with the result.

– THE cake –

– First slice taken out….the reaction was a perfect ‘woah!’ –

– There were too many layers and it was a bit TOO much cake for most of us –

– MASSIVE –

– SInging Happy Birthday –

– Blowing out the candles –

Happy Birthday Mumma – watch out for next year’s cake…I’ve got to top this one!

Have you ever had a beautiful-looking cake, that also tasted superb?