I have always wanted to write about the process of the making of my cakes but I just have not had a chance but now finally I can sit down and write a few words about the making of 1 of the cake that I have made few weeks ago.
The cake was made for my friend's 1 year old daughter, Valerie. My friend, Stephanie wanted a simple 'number one' cake. She showed me a picture of the style that she liked then I did it my own version.
I have made a sketch of how the cake looked like and sent it to Stephanie. Once she was happy with it then I started to make the baby bottle, name blocks, bees, flowers and bear.
Once these are all done then I started to bake the cake. I have baked the cake in 1 10inch square cake pan in 2 batches. Once the cake was cooled, buttercream was laid in the layers. Then I had to measure and cut the cake so that I could get the 'number 1' shape. Buttercream was laid again to cover the whole cake. Unfortunately I could not show the photos of the cake cutting process as my wife was busy with baby Cherry so she could not help me with capturing the photo.
Once that was done I covered the cake with the pink colour fondant. That was the first time I covered a number one cake. It was slightly different from covering a normal round cake. Obviously it was more time consuming! So now I know I need to allow that in my costing for both shaping the cake and the fondant covering :)
I also spent quite some time in cutting the name and 'happy birthday' wordings as I just bought a patchwork cutter so I was not sure how to actually use it. Hopefully I can find a quicker way to do it next time. Anyway, after all that was done it was time to decorate the cake! I had to measure the length of the ribbon (non-edible) and stick onto the cake and piped the dots with royal icing. Then only I glued everything in place. So here is the final product of the cake!
