'I don't know your name, but your birthday cake was delicious.'
As most of us are leaving before Tom's actual birthday, we thought it would be good to make him an early birthday cake. So to celebrate his birthday, my best friend Jess and I decided to bake him a Victoria Sponge!
I've made one before but, because I got too excited and took the cake out the tin whilst it was still warm, it kind of went wrong. Then, when I was spreading the jam and buttercream icing, I got too excited again and didn't work... I'm sure you can guess what happened. All the cake crumbled off.
So, this cake was much better as I learnt from that silly mistake.
Instead of baking two separate cakes, we thought it would be a good idea to bake it in one tin and then use the 'Kitchen Craft Cake Cutting Wire' to divide it (we also used this device to slice off some excess cake so that it wouldn't wobble around). Being lazy students, we didn't want to wash more than we had to, so we kept the utensils and tins down to a minimum!
As most of us are leaving before Tom's actual birthday, we thought it would be good to make him an early birthday cake. So to celebrate his birthday, my best friend Jess and I decided to bake him a Victoria Sponge!
I've made one before but, because I got too excited and took the cake out the tin whilst it was still warm, it kind of went wrong. Then, when I was spreading the jam and buttercream icing, I got too excited again and didn't work... I'm sure you can guess what happened. All the cake crumbled off.
So, this cake was much better as I learnt from that silly mistake.
After dividing the cake, Jess and I spread the jam (Hartley's No-Bits Strawberry Jam) on one half of the cake and placed the other half on top of it. We made our buttercream icing by following Mary Berry's recipe, rather than using Betty Crocker's, which actually worked out well since we could spread it easily. The buttercream went on top of the cake (instead of in between the two cakes) so that we could decorate it.
We used icing pens to write the '20' on the cake so we could cover it with the smarties and then added the different coloured candles to make it a bit more exciting.
For the sides, we used small stars and positioned them in a zig zag pattern. Unfortunately, this isn't a fantastic photo of it as the buttercream wasn't spread well along the sides so it doesn't look as smooth as the rest of the cake.
I was going to add a photo of the birthday boy with his slice of cake but I thought he might not appreciate a photo of him on here. But...
Happy 20th Birthday to Tom on the 29th of June!
We used icing pens to write the '20' on the cake so we could cover it with the smarties and then added the different coloured candles to make it a bit more exciting.
For the sides, we used small stars and positioned them in a zig zag pattern. Unfortunately, this isn't a fantastic photo of it as the buttercream wasn't spread well along the sides so it doesn't look as smooth as the rest of the cake.
I was going to add a photo of the birthday boy with his slice of cake but I thought he might not appreciate a photo of him on here. But...
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