IT’S MY BOY’S BIRTHDAY AND I MADE HIS BIRTHDAY CAKE ALL BY MYSELF.

Greetings to all my beautiful friends of Steem Women Club. I hope you’re all okay and safe 🥰🥰
So I had an amazing and fulfilled week and I wish to share how it all went with my Steemit family.

My first son, my first fruit and my womb opener clocked five yesterday, 25th of June, 2021.
Yes, super five. I have been so excited and thankful at the same time.

I was supposed to go order for his birthday cake but on a second thought, I decided to make make it a remarkable one by baking and icing his birthday cake by myself.
Note; I have never baked a whole cake and iced it before. My first was on Steemfoods contest but that was just a trial and it didn’t come out that good.

So, this was how I went about it;

I went shopping for my cake ingredients and got these items;

1. 500g All purpose flour
2. 500g Butter
3. 1 cup of sugar
4. 10 large eggs
5. 1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
6. 1 teaspoon baking soda
7. I tin of peak milk
8. 1 teaspoon Vanilla flavor
9. 2 tablespoons Butterscotch flavor
10. Paw Patrol Stickers

I went on to make the cake by;

1. Creaming my sugar and butter to very fluffy State. My arms were aching by the time I was half-way already.

1. I am using local oven, so I prepared it by adding sand and gravels to my biggest pot and placed it on my burner. I then placed gas stand in the pot and reduced the flame to the lowest level.

1. I whisked the eggs and added to the fluffy batter.

2. I added the flavor and milk and mixed very well.

1. I then rubbed my cake pan with butter and dusted it with flour so that the cake will not stick to the pan. I used an 8 inches pan.

I sifted the flour, baking powder and baking soda together into a bowl.

1. I then poured the flour and folded it into the batter batch by batch.

1. I poured my cake batter into the pan and baked the first one for about 40 minutes and the second one for about 40 minutes too.

THE SECOND JOURNEY (My biggest fear and scare). THE ICING😱😱

I have always been scared of the idea of icing a cake because I felt it will never come out good like a caterer’s since I didn’t attend a catering class. This is one good area that Steemit and other Social Media Platforms have been of immense help to me. I read through almost every cake recipe and icing on @steemfoods. Thank you so much @steemit for that beautiful community and the Admin. You’re loads of inspiration for me.

So I embarked on my cake icing journey with;

1. 500g Icing Sugar

2. 500g Shortening fat

3. Royal Blue and Egg yellow colors.

Procedures

I creamed the icing sugar and shortening fat to a fluffy state.

I separated them into 3, added the blue color to one, the egg yellow color to the second part and left the third part white.

I continued to my icing journey by trimming the cakes to level them and spread the top of the first layer with the white sugar and placed the second cake layer on it.

I then covered the lower level with the blue color, the second layer with the yellow color, the top with the blue and smoothed them out.

I added some yellow color to a piping bag and decorated the base and top of the cake. I then added the white sugar to another bag piping and wrote my handsome Son’s name on it and decorated his birthday cake with his favorite cartoon character (The Paw Patrol).

The cake came out so beautiful 😍. I am so happy and proud of myself and my son is still so excited and tells everyone that cared to listen that his mummy made his birthday cake.
The taste and texture is close to perfect. I am so glad that I did.

HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY MY PRINCE. I LOVE SO MUCH ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for taking me through this learning journey.

I won’t have to order for cakes anymore. I will keep trying to improve on my skills because PRACTICE WILL MAKES ME PERFECT.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, DEAREST SISTERS FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE 😍😍😍
I LOVE YOU ALL.

Best Regards;
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