I was lucky enough to be asked to make the cake to celebrate the 90th birthday of my friend’s grandmother. When the G-Star was asked what cake she would like for her birthday, the answer was for the same as the wedding cake. The decoration had to be different so instead of piping roses on the outside as I did for the wedding cake, I used two techniques I had been wanting to use on this scale for a while – ombre and the petal technique. The result is this Peach Ombre Petal Cake… red velvet of course.
Red Velvet Cupcakes and My First Blogiversary
Can you believe that on Wednesday it will be one year since I published the first post about My Best Friend’s Wedding Cake? It is just absolutely crazy.
So for my celebratory post on my first blogiversary (as those in the biz call it) I thought I would share the cupcakes that inspired the cake that inspired the blog. These red velvet cupcakes are always popular whenever I make them, so much so that I made over 300 of them one weekend for a bunch of my brother’s friends. I absolutely adore everything about them.
Christmas 2012 – Red Velvet White Christmas Cake
After having Christmas at our house last year, the hubby was pretty keen to host it again pretty well deciding that day. So the hunt began for a new dessert to top the Bûche de Noël from last year. I toyed with a couple of different “trees”, being macaron or meringue as well as a cake decorated with fondant from the front of the Creative SugarCraft magazine. Given the hubby’s immense dislike of fondant the last idea was thrown out the window but then I recalled a post on Raspberri Cupcakes’ blog for a red velvet cake with snowman macarons. It was very much reflecting a white Christmas, which we do not have here in Australia (although my parents inform me they did have snow many moons ago on Christmas Day) but it was still a winner in my books.
Southern Bombe
Another one of the cookbooks I purchased recently was SprinkleBakes by Heather Baird. I came across Heather’s blog when I was looking for red recipes to use up the extra food colouring purchased for My Best Friend’s Wedding Cake and I made the Red Spiral Biscuits, also featured in the book.
As I was flicking through the book when it arrived, one particular recipe stood out and I knew I had the perfect occasion to make it. The recipe was for a Southern Bombe and the occasion was yet another September birthday celebration for two of my beautiful friends.
Red Velvet Rose Cake for Inner Wheel
In May I was asked to recreate the red velvet rose cake from My Best Friend’s Wedding Cake by the mother of the bride for a luncheon of the local Inner Wheel group in August.
The cake was to be predominately the same as the wedding cake, however as the symbol of the Inner Wheel is a red rose, a few of these were scattered in amongst the white.
O Canada!
A long time friend of the hubby is from Canada and kindly enough invited us to their Canada Day celebrations. Of course this means I found the perfect excuse to bake.
My Best Friend’s Wedding… Cake
In February I had the utmost pleasure of making the wedding cake for one of my best friend’s on her wedding day. I have never EVER made a wedding cake before, and given I had only got married myself in October last year, I knew how much pressure there is for it to be perfect (after the annoyance we went through with ours, but that’s another story).