Anyway, less about the actual party and onto the cake. Jessica is a fairly tough customer when it comes to cake. Most children choose chocolate or vanilla cake - not the Jedi, she requested marble cake with a red velvet & vanilla cake combination (she originally wanted rv & white chocolate but changed her mind). The cake turned out pretty well. Any bakers out there will know that the consistency of red velvet cake batter is waaaaaay runnier than regular yellow cake batter, mostly as it has vegetable oil as the fat and not butter! Still, I did it and although it looked a little pink in places, there were definite pockets of white and red so I'll take that as a success. The design request was for a lego themed cake, but different to the lego cake I'd done before - okay then....
This was a pretty last minute cake in that I started decorating at 8.20pm on Friday night (cake due next morning). There's been so much going on recently outside of baking - now I've mentioned this before, but I really do do other things besides baking and making an almighty mess in the kitchen - that I really only had Friday night to get on and do the cake. Alright, throw in a healthy dose of procrastination and you get the picture...
So, with the girls in bed, I started. The marshmallow fondant just wouldn't co-operate. I don't know if it was the temperature outside (it was 84F here on Friday), or if I just didn't nuke the marshmallows for long enough, whatever the reason, I had it on and off the cake several times before wanting to throw it all out of the window. I even contemplated throwing the whole lot out, cake and all and buying one on Saturday morning from Publix, such was my frustration! However, I put my hormones back in check and got on with it, just as all self-respecting mums do. I wasn't particularly happy with the end result of the green marshmallow fondant but well, sometimes you've just got to go with what you've got! The bricks were fun to do, and yes, yet again, I cut them all out to the sizes of real lego bricks. (I'm thinking of making a silicon mould for these little things (not exactly what I was calling them on Friday night but that was the sentiment), I mean, really how hard can that be? I'm almost positive there will be a youtube video, if not several, on how to do it.) A saving grace was that Jessica didn't want her cake to look like the previous lego cake, which meant way less dots to cut and apply individually which was a time saver. As it was, I finished the cake at 1.30am and after a very rough tidy and clean of my work area I hit the hay.
6.45am Saturday morning, my bedroom door flew open and there was Jessica asking if she could a) see her cake and b) was it time to get ready yet? No was the answer to both.
6.50am - Jessica again, wanting to go downstairs to see the cake - reply = yes, but don't touch it! Squeals of delight and awesome rang through the house from my little Southern Belle (oh yes, she's an English born all American Gal!).
We got to the party with everything remembered, except for cutlery to eat the cake with, all that had RSVP'd arrived and a fun time was had by all. Especially Jessica who was completely overwhelmed (and just a tad obnoxious - only I am allowed to say that!) with all of the wonderful gifts she received - thank you to all who came and helped celebrate Jessica turning 7.
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| Jessica's 7th Birthday Party cake |
Of course, thoughts have now turned to what she's going to have for her 'real' birthday cake for her official birthday!
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