21st Birthday

Yay! Finally legal in the USA. This post is a tad late...like a month late, but we can all still appreciate a nice cake. I happened to be in the US for my birthday this year and I was able to share it with a friend here that also has the same birthday. I wanted to make a cake for us but I did't have all my tools here to make an exuberant cake so this is what I came up with: White sponge dyed purple (her favourite colour) with homemade caramel and crushed m&ms for the filling, along with whipped cream covering for the whole cake. Simple and delicious.

Now for my birthday party back home I decided to try something new that I had seen in a blog awhile back. Instead of making flowers or something of the traditional nature, this blog demonstrated how to make ombre hearts that are actually shaped sugar cubes in a sense. The shine that the sugar picks up from the light give this cake such a nice sparkle and it is just so girly and pretty. For this cake the bottom tier is coconut cake dyed green (because I can) with raspberry coulis, toasted coconut, and italian meringue buttercream. Same goes for the top tier except chocolate cake replaces the coconut cake. Here is the link for the blog that shows you how to make the ombre sugar hearts.