![]() Its buck – it looked fairly impressive but didn’t take a huge amount of time to I was quite pleased with this cake as it delivered a lot of bang for Used some white chocolate buttons (which were vegan) to fill in a few spaces on Which is the liquid you get in a tin of chickpeas! Is usually made with eggs – you can make a very good substitute meringue from aquafaba, Did you know that? It’s actually quite surprising given meringue To represent the flamingo’s wings just as I wanted.įinal decorative touches I added mini meringues – again you can make your ownĪnd if you want this whole cake to be vegan (which makes sense given the recipe To pick up when they had dried, and I was able to stand them on the top of the cake I did a few layers so the wings would be thick enough I placed a piece of greaseproof paper on a board and using a siliconīrush, created the wings by sweeping the melted chocolate in the shape I wantedĪnd leaving them to set. Make the wings, by melting white chocolate and adding a little pink foodĬolouring. Of a hurry I decided to cut a flamingo shape out of cardboard. One from flower paste or even a fat 3D one from fondant, but as I was in a bit Top of the cake I knew I wanted the centrepiece to be a flamingo. It’s paper it can’t really be cleaned and reused! I had someįlamingo print wrapping paper which I used to the same effect, but of course as We had one made of foil as a child that was put onĮvery birthday cake for me and my sister year after year, and carefully cleanedĪnd put away again – I can remember exactly what it looks like. ![]() Hide it, and partly for a fun nostalgic throw-back, I added a cake banner, if Messy (I never understand how people get perfectly neat sides!). With I covered the cake with buttercream but realised the sides were quite It was really moist and delicious and the perfect cake. Looked online for a suitable cake recipe and used this one from One Green One of my friends I was getting together with is vegan so I Thought flamingos might make for a more glamorous cake! I settled quite quickly on a flamingo theme - I prefer llamas but I I made a cake to take with me as we were staying at aįriend’s parents house while her parents were out of town (it’s like we were 16Īgain!). With my school friends where we had a professional photoshoot, did an escape Hotel with my husband and daughter followed by a weekend back in my home town Had an extended celebration, including a visit to my family, a weekend in a Made for my birthday last year, so here it is! It was a milestone birthday so I Kitchen on my birthday so was happy enough with a shop-bought cake.īut I’ve realised that I never actually shared the cake I But I had noįree time before the big day and didn’t really want to spend hours in the Supermarket - the first time in many years I haven’t made my own. This year my birthday cake was a chocolate cake from the Home and looking after a toddler for the first time in a while! My husband and Iīoth took the day off work as well and it was nice not juggling working from Which I will blog about once I’ve used it a bit more, enjoyed a takeaway lunchįrom a nearby cafe and a takeaway dinner from a local Italian. I had some nice presents, including an Instant Pot Wasn’t too bad at all - I’m at home with my husband and two year old daughter I celebrated my birthday during lockdown this year and it
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