Caleb's homemade birthday cake 2012

For those who saw my previous post with birthday cake pictures without any words, I'm sorry. I was supposed to upload those pictures to my other blog (just for my parent and my father-in-law to see just in case we couldn't make it back home several weeks and they kinda miss Caleb), but I made a mistake. No wonder my mom complained that she couldn't see the pictures eventhou I said I've already uploaded them and she blamed it on my dad for getting senile (already??) for not able to type the blog address properly... haha...Sorry la dad.....  

Anyway, I've delete that post and decided to write a proper one....

Ok, back to Caleb's homemade birthday cake. Last year, I did his birthday cake too but I didn't like it because I cheated! Hah..... I made the cake with premix powder. No choice, couldn't make it on time as the first attempt failed miserably.

So, this time I was determined to make a proper one...from scratch. Ahemmm.... I surfed a lot of baking blog and there is one that never fail to impress me. Wendy-in-kk. God, she is the Goddess in baking and cooking and her ideas are endless. There's nothing that she can't do actually. So, I searched for her recipe on cake ideas and this particular one looked "wow..."

"I wish that I can do this"

Wish no more, let's get down to business.... And so, I bought all the ingredients and began doing it on Friday. We planned to go back to my parent's house for the celebration as my mom said she'll do the red-coloured-eggs (a must in Hokkien family, I guess but only if you are before 10-years-old because I don't remember my mom did any for me after I've puberty ;)) and a few other dishes.

So, this is the cake. My version. Of course don't compare with Wendy's one. :)

One mishap happened when I frosted the cake. As I don't have a proper frosting equipment like the spinning wheel where you put your cake on it and spin it around when you doing the frosting. So I just propped it on an upside down big bowl. While spinning the cake slowly and slabbed on the buttercream, the whole cake fall down. "AHHHHHHHHHH..." - this is my reaction. Caleb ran from the living room into the kitchen and asked me "Mami, what happen? what happen?"

Hahaha...I just shoo-ed him away. I don't need another trouble-maker from my guy.

The whole cake was 'senget'. Aiyer.....my whole effort is gone. G.O.N.E... I was stunned.

Finally after calm down for a while, I decided to use whipping cream instead of buttercream as whipping cream is more light and I needed to use tonnes of it to cover the flaws. Buttercream is too over-whelming. We ran down to gaint at 7pm and searching for some ideas to cover the side as well. Jk was 'kan cheong' as well. Hahahaha.........

So, I bought one pack of cadbury's chocolate stick and a packet of strawberry. And ching chang ching chang back in kitchen for another 2 hours (amateur, that's why took so long) and the final product look quite presentable. Phewwww........

The cake looks like bricks on the wall with badly infested white ants. Hahahaha....

Anyway, my mom like it very much and she was impressed. The next day, they had it for breakfast and my dad asked my mom "How much is this cake?" My mom said "What buy? Your daughter did it lar..."

Ahemmm........ this is priceless :)