my birthday cake

long time no see guys!! sorry for not coming on in ages but anyway lets get down to buisness. On the 7th of jan it was my birthday and i turned 15!yay!!! anyway i only got told on saturday that all my family are coming on sunday to celebrate my birthday, so i had to make this cake in a hurry! this is what it turned out to look like.

 

 

i used 2 of my square silicone tins as you have seen in my kit kat cake:

ingredients:

16 ounces of self raising flour

16 ounces of butter

16 ounces of caster sugar

8 large eggs

2 tsp of vanilla essence

a tsp of baking powder

2 tbsp of water

6-7 tbsp of cocoa powder(if you want but you need to take 6-7 tbsp of flour out)

decoration:

500g of icing sugar

250g butter

2 tbsp of vanilla essence

3-4 tbsp of cocoa powder(use more if you want a darker colour)

fondante

gel colours

gumpaste/flowerpaste

chocolate(choc chips, maltesers)

method:

1.preheat ur oven to 190°c and line your tin/mould with grese proof paper or butter or even the 1 calorie butter spray(i use this for my cakes and the cakes pop out after a couple of minutes)

2. mix the butter and sugar together until it feels smooth

3 one by one crack the eggs and add them into the mixture. Mix it for a couple of minutes during this add your water and vanilla essence

4. after add in the flour baking powder and cocoa powder (if you want) mix it until it is light and fluffy

5. after it has been well mixed together and is light and fluffy you can start pouring the mixture into the tins/moulds make sure they are leveled out

6. put the cakes in for around 20-25 mins you should be able to put a knife /skewer throught the middles of the cakes when you take the knife/skewer out they should be clean

7. leave the cakes to cool for around an hour after that cut around the edges and the top of the cakes equally

 

8. whilst they are cooling you can make your frosting. Cream the butter until it is soft and then slowly add the icing sugar add some vanilla essence (and cocoa powder if you want)

9. spread the buttercream all over your cake apart from the bottom. This cake should be the base. on the other cake do the same and place it on top. If you want you can put it in an angle like i did.

10. for my deoration i made the cakes look like presents so cuts strips out of fondant if you want them coloured got to a cake shop and buy the colours you want. they have to be gel colours or it wont work.

11. cut some more strips out and make a bow

12. if you have any gum paste/flowerpaste colour it the colour you want and to fill in the gaps cut flowers love hearts or any shape you want. If you want them flat place them on straight away. if not place the flowers in a small cupcake case and leave in the fridge to harden overnight and bend on the petals.

13. I made ome extra flowers and pulled the petals off as they were exact circles so i then placed them on random places of the cake as well.

14. place a chocolate in the middle of the flower like a chocolate chip or malteser.

15. If you want make some more flowers and fill the bored up too!

 

 

Now the cake is done! Enjoy!:)