Birthday Cake

Hello there! I hope you are well:)
Recently my best friend turned 16. To mark the very special occasion of a very special person in my life having a big birthday, I decided to take up the challenge of making her a birthday cake for her party. Now I have to admit that I am not a great baker. But I did it and I live to tell my cooking adventure tale . It's not anything fancy but its sweet and nice and homemade-y.

It should look a little something like this...

First things first (I'm the realistic...yeah people need to stop doing that joke:P) this cake has three layers. Don't worry it's not too complex. What I did was follow a simple victoria sponge recipe twice. The first time I spilt the mixture into two thinner round tins and the second time I put the same amount of mixture in a thicker tin.

Ingredients for cake: (this is for each round of cooking round 1 spilt it into two tins & round 2 in one big tin)

• 100g of margarine
• 100g of caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 100g of self raising flour (if you want a chocolate cake: take out a few tablespoons of flour and replace it with a few table spoons of cocoa powder)
• 3-4 drops of vanilla essence (if you are making a chocolate cake don't include this)

1. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees celcious/Gas mark 5 and grease and put greaseproof paper in the tins.
2. Whisk the butter and sugar together
3. Add one egg at a time
4. Fold in the flour
5. Add the vanilla essence and bake for 20-25 minutes one large tin may need long than this
6. Now you need to construct and decorate the cake

Ingredients for icing/filling:

• 50g of butter
• 100g of icing sugar
• 2 tablespoons of milk (if the mixture is too stiff and will not spread easily)
• 3-4 drops of vanilla essence
• Nutella

7. Whisk the butter

8. Gradually add the sugar

9. Put in vanilla essence (and milk if needed)

10. The layering works with a thin cake on the bottom, the bigger one in the middle and the other thinner one on the top. Spread the icing on the top of one of the thin layers. Spread nutella on the bottom of the bigger layer and place it onto the thinner layer.

11. Spread the icing on the top of the middle layer. Spread nutella on the bottom of the second thinner layer and place on top.

12. Cover the top and sides of the cake with icing.

13. Nearly there! All you need to do now is decorate and you are done.

What I used for decoration:

• white chocolate chips
• glitter writing icing - I got mine from HERE
• wafer daisies - I got mine from HERE
• wafer bows - I got mine from HERE

Just remember to have fun with it and it's the thought that counts.

Thank you for reading!

Bysiebye

Beccsie Belle

xx