Belated Cake
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deird_ljI got a birthday cake last night.
And yes - my birthday was nearly a month ago. But one of the people in my small group had her birthday this week, and because I joined the group after my birthday, they decreed that the birthday cake was for both of us. Yay!
Is it bad that I now want to work my way through the Women's Weekly cookbook, and bake all the cakes, just for me?
And yes - my birthday was nearly a month ago. But one of the people in my small group had her birthday this week, and because I joined the group after my birthday, they decreed that the birthday cake was for both of us. Yay!
It was a funky cake, too - straight out of the Women's Weekly kids book.
(For those non-Australians in the audience: if a mother is wanting to give her child a super-special cake, like one in the shape of a "9" for a nine-year-old, or a steam train (with carriages), or a swimming pool cake with all the little people floating around on jelly in the middle, or a beautiful princess cake so that the birthday girl will smile happily and all the party guests will go home asking their mothers if they can have a princess cake for their birthday, and the mothers will all plot vengeance against the woman who has made their lives so much harder, and the original birthday-cake-making mother will smile smugly at all the other mothers for the rest of the year because she's THE BEST MOTHER OF ALL OF THEM, AND SHE MAKES HER DARLING DAUGHTER SPECIAL CAKES INSTEAD OF JUST ROUND ONES WITH ICING ON TOP....
Ahem.
...in that case, said mother would use the Women's Weekly kids cake book. It's the ultimate in funky cakes.)
This particular cake was described by the maker as a "pinata cake" (not its original name).
It was basically a big chocolate dome. Not a chocolate flavoured dome - an actual chocolate dome. Covered in Smarties.
And you had to crack the dome open with spoons - hence the "pinata" part - and the cake was in the middle. And so were a lot of chocolate gold coins.
I felt so very special.
(For those non-Australians in the audience: if a mother is wanting to give her child a super-special cake, like one in the shape of a "9" for a nine-year-old, or a steam train (with carriages), or a swimming pool cake with all the little people floating around on jelly in the middle, or a beautiful princess cake so that the birthday girl will smile happily and all the party guests will go home asking their mothers if they can have a princess cake for their birthday, and the mothers will all plot vengeance against the woman who has made their lives so much harder, and the original birthday-cake-making mother will smile smugly at all the other mothers for the rest of the year because she's THE BEST MOTHER OF ALL OF THEM, AND SHE MAKES HER DARLING DAUGHTER SPECIAL CAKES INSTEAD OF JUST ROUND ONES WITH ICING ON TOP....
Ahem.
...in that case, said mother would use the Women's Weekly kids cake book. It's the ultimate in funky cakes.)
This particular cake was described by the maker as a "pinata cake" (not its original name).
It was basically a big chocolate dome. Not a chocolate flavoured dome - an actual chocolate dome. Covered in Smarties.
And you had to crack the dome open with spoons - hence the "pinata" part - and the cake was in the middle. And so were a lot of chocolate gold coins.
I felt so very special.
Is it bad that I now want to work my way through the Women's Weekly cookbook, and bake all the cakes, just for me?
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Date: 2008-06-20 10:27 pm (UTC)Source of many a happy childhood memory, as my wonderful sister would make a lion cake for my brother, and a fairy castle cake for me, and and and....yes, amazing stuffs.
Yours sound awesome though. Must be from an updated version to the 80s edition we have, I think I know all the cakes in there off by heart...
Speaking of jealous people with cakes with jelly on them and other mums making them...friend of mine when I was little got one of those, withbluejellyontopandlittleswimmingplasticpeopleandchocolate bulletsforfencearoundtheoutside, and I thought it was the best thing *ever*, and my mum *never* made one for me, no matter how much I asked. :-(
I won't talk about the year she went on a health-craze so I got a plain iced (not frosted- ICED) cake with no food colourings or fillings or anything. Except some little faintly-red balls for prettiness on top...
Sigh.
But then, other years were, while not WW fanciness, good old-fashioned ones like a mocha-creme sponge cake or a sachertorte or a cream cake or something, so that was always good. :-)
Mm, now I feel like baking a cake. Might have to find my special book with choo-choo trains and pirate cakes and racing-car cakes...