It was Liam's birthday on Friday 4th, so I spent a couple of days last week baking and decorating his birthday cake! I don't make him a cake every year, because he doesn't have a need for cake in the same way that I do. But seeing as we went camping over the weekend with our friends for his birthday, I thought I'd put in a bit of effort and make him something everyone can enjoy to get into a real birthday mood!
He recently bought himself a telescope, and has a huge interest in space and Physics, so I decided to make his cake space themed! I wasn't sure how exactly I was going to do it, but I luckily managed to spot a hemisphere cake tin which bakes cakes into half spheres. It made for a perfect moon shape! I got mine from Lakeland, but you can find them on Amazon and on eBay - they're all pretty similar in price, I tried my best to find a bargain, but cake tins aren't the cheapest! I also decided on baking some cake pops, which would be little aliens to accompany my moon!
Liam has pointed out to me in the past the super bright rainbow cakes, and said how cool they were, but I never got round to making one for him. Gel food colourings bring out the brightest colours, so I tracked down some Wilton gel dyes which I bought from Amazon. For the inside of the cake, I chose to use the neon set which gave an amazing vibrancy and such unusual colours. The purple took a lot more dye than the others to stop it looking grey, so I think if I made another, I probably would bypass the purple! I also bought another set of twelve colours, which I used on my cake pops! These were so good, and maybe even better and brighter than the neons! You can see the inside of my cake pops on my Instagram feed!
He recently bought himself a telescope, and has a huge interest in space and Physics, so I decided to make his cake space themed! I wasn't sure how exactly I was going to do it, but I luckily managed to spot a hemisphere cake tin which bakes cakes into half spheres. It made for a perfect moon shape! I got mine from Lakeland, but you can find them on Amazon and on eBay - they're all pretty similar in price, I tried my best to find a bargain, but cake tins aren't the cheapest! I also decided on baking some cake pops, which would be little aliens to accompany my moon!
Liam has pointed out to me in the past the super bright rainbow cakes, and said how cool they were, but I never got round to making one for him. Gel food colourings bring out the brightest colours, so I tracked down some Wilton gel dyes which I bought from Amazon. For the inside of the cake, I chose to use the neon set which gave an amazing vibrancy and such unusual colours. The purple took a lot more dye than the others to stop it looking grey, so I think if I made another, I probably would bypass the purple! I also bought another set of twelve colours, which I used on my cake pops! These were so good, and maybe even better and brighter than the neons! You can see the inside of my cake pops on my Instagram feed!
I just used a standard victoria sponge recipe, filled with strawberry jam and butter cream. Because I picked the large hemisphere tin, I had to use a six egg recipe to make sure it filled the pan. I dyed some of the icing the bright neons, and made a little spaceman to sit on the cake. I also cut out some stars with a little star cutter and sprinkled on some gold and white glitter to make it really spacey.
I finished my cake pops with a coating of white chocolate, and some neon sugar! I attempted to draw some faces with some of those icing pens but they just kind of melted down...don't really know what happened there. Admittedly, the aliens didn't turn out as pristine and perfect as I had hoped but oh well! For all we know, aliens might look exactly like these do...
We went camping on the Friday night through until Sunday, which was lots of fun even though field mice managed to break in and eat our breakfast buns and our Sunday lay in was cut short because major winds snapped our tent... But despite it all, it was a very fun weekend! Even if we did in the end forget to take the cake altogether...more for us!
So...what do you think? Am I a master baker?
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