My first ever try of Baking & Decorating a Birthday Cake

• I am not an expert & this is my 1^st time of baking a cake for some other’s Birthday. But I didn’t prepare ahead. So I found that I didn’t have enough time to do the finishes nicely.

• Not only the cake, I had to prepare lunch & some other food for the party. But I started everything in the same day.

• The bottom part is a Cake dummy. The reason for not baking a big cake is that we didn’t have guests other than family members. So this is my plan to not to waste or not to have left over cakes.

• I used buttercream icing.

• First I wrapped the cake dummy with a plastic wrap in order to prevent patches from food colouring or icing.

• I treated the dummy as a real cake & applied the first layer of Pink icing. Kept it in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes.

• Meanwhile I covered the Baked Butter cake (which is already cooled on the wire rack) with yellow buttercream icing. After applying the icing, I transferred it into the fridge & took the dummy out.

• I kept the dummy on the cake board which I am going to use.

• Then using a spatula, I tried to make the icing layer thinner & neat. I used a cup of hot water & put the spatula in it before using for the decoration. This made it easier to apply icing evenly.

• Then I took the butter cake out from the fridge and kept on top of the dummy.

• Continued with decorating.

• I used the star tip for almost all the decoration & it was simple.

• However I was running out of time & I had to finish it.Sprinkled some colourful sprinkles on top of the cake.

• I could see some mistakes on the cake, but had to finish it.

• Finally I found that I haven’t plan for writing any wishes or words on the cake. But according to my choice I couldn’t find a place on the cake to write any word. Instead I used a Ribbon bow on the dummy part of the cake.

Anyway we had a good time with our niece. She celebrated her 2^nd Birthday with her Aunt’s cake.

Here is the Photo of the Day!!!  🙂

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