Well work is seriously taking up too much of my time and I've been working from home heaps and doing some very long awaited spring cleaning! Throwing out mags I started reading years ago! It's a very cleansing experience. Well back to the 1st Birthday cake. I was pretty pleased with how it turned out considering the disastrous week leading up to the family celebrations! My oven kept tripping the power so we needed to call in the Electricians. My hubby in his wisdom decided while they were here to tear up the place and get a heap of other things done. Not what I need with a bucket load of visitors on their way in few days. Electrician fixes our switchboard and things should be all hunky dory with the oven so I start baking biccies for the party when black smoke comes billowing out and a big bang! Oh nooo disaster! It's 5 mins to 5pm I have Buckley's chance of finding an oven man to try and do a repair it's Friday the next day slim chance of finding someone in time. Looks like I'm going to be cooking sausage rolls in an electric frying pan - let alone what will I do about the cake I haven't started! But Miracles happen sometimes. I get onto the best local Mr Oven fixit man first thing Friday morning what a fluke! He's in the next suburb and can fit me in first thing. Unfortunately fixing doesn't come cheap! A few hundred dollars later my oven's burnt out motor has been replaced and I'm in the business for getting this cake baked! I used a dolly varden tin and the basic butter cake recipe out of my cooking bible my Day to Day Cookery book from High School. I also like the daisy cupcake recipe from the Crabapple cupcake book. The icing was super yummy also from the Crabapple cookbook the Vanilla buttercream frosting. I made the faux cupcake case from fan folded scrapbooking card. The butterflies I made with a butterfly cookie cutter and "Orchid White Icing" I bought the roses from a cake decorating shop. Best of all the kids loved the cake. I just needed to sleep after such a long stressful week!
