Happy Birthday Roxy

Dear all,

August has come again which means time for a birthday cake for Roxy! This year no Christian Bale or rude age-related comments, but a rose cake for the pretty lady!

The roses on the cake are home made with sugar paste coloured pink and yellow. The leaves are coloured green with green edible lustre. I made them 2 days in advance so they had plenty of time to dry/harden.



I thought I would stick with the pink and yellow theme and added some pink food colouring to half of the cake mix (coconut pound cake by the way). I then scooped through it a couple times for a marbled effect.



This was actually the first time I used a sylicone mould and I wasn't very happy with it. One half of it sagged in the oven giving me a lopsided cake.



To compensate for the lopsidedness I decided to cut off part of the cake (giving you a view of the marbled inside at the same time!!) The other downside of this cake going lopsided is losing the pattern. Cutting part of it off meant covering it completely in icing (not my original plan) and thus losing the nice shape of it. Cream cheese icing is still my favourite though so not too much complaining but still, what a waste!



Fortunately the roses worked out perfectly and in fact covering the cake completely off set the roses beautifully. I did a bit of free style arranging and this is what it turned in to. Not bad if I may say so myself!



So there it is, rose cake! Not sure if I'll use the sylicone mould again. I'm sure they're not supposed to sag like that, maybe it was just a fluke. A test to my baking skills (har har). Happy Birthday Roxy! We didn't need the sun because you were all the sunshine we needed.



xoxo Jennifer