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Cake

26/5/2014

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Birthday 2014
I am a food enthusiast, both making and eating.  Last year I decided to start making fancy cakes, as a way of combining my food love with my art love.  The first fancy cake I made was for my birthday last year.  If it didn't go well, nobody else's birthday cake would be ruined.
PictureBirthday 2013
Learning to work with fondant was a fun challenge.  Last year's cake was lime flavoured, and I wanted a little surprise of bright colour for my friends when the cake was cut.  The design is incredibly simple, but it was not easy to make. 

I started out making everything from scratch except the icing (used to make the cake sticky to hold the fondant).  I now use purchased gum paste and modelling chocolate if they are needed. 

This year, I decided to attempt a sugar pour to make a water lily pond.  I also offered a gluten-free chocolate cupcake option for a friend with coeliac, which gave me more cakes to decorate. 

This year's cake is pear cinnamon, which I adapted from a simple white cake recipe. 

Cake Recipe: 

1 pear
cinnamon
ginger
salt

1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 tsp cinnamon flavour
1/2 cup milk

1 1/2 cups flour
1 3/4 tsp baking powder

Dice pear, place in saucepan, season with cinnamon, ginger, and a dash of salt to taste.  Cook on medium while preparing the cake batter, stir occasionally.  Cinnamon can form a paste-like texture, this is normal and will mix in to batter later. 

Pre-heat oven to 350.  Grease 9 x 9  baking pan. 

Mix all
wet ingredients thoroughly.  Add flour, add baking powder, and mix.  Add pear mixture.  Taste the batter because it's yummy. 

Pour into baking pan,
bake about 30 - 40 minutes.  Baking is complete when the cake springs up when touched.  Let cool on rack, and enjoy. 


Thank you to my friends and family who celebrated with me.  I would not lead a life I love so much without you. 

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