The Birthday Party Project #5

This is the last of my practice runs for Oscar’s birthday party – the birthday cake.  Given that there is going to be a lot of chocolate party food I decided to make a vanilla cake, and as natural food colours are out (experiment #1) I have a bought a Thomas and Friends cake topper, which consists of a cardboard carnival back drop and a couple of plastic trains.  All I need to do is draw on some tracks with chocolate icing.

The cake recipe is from Kidspot and is super moist.  It kept very well for 3 days in an airtight container, which is perfect for a birthday cake, as I can start it a couple of days before.  The buttermilk gives it a delicious flavour.  I made a large rectangular cake using a double quantity of the original recipe, so if you don’t want a cake this big, just halve the ingredients.

I had planned to ice the cake with butter icing, but my beaters died just as I was finishing up the cake (they have never worked so hard in their lives as they have recently!)  As I’m writing this I have bid on Grays Online for a nice new one.  So instead of butter icing I just dusted it with icing sugar instead, although Oscar did make me draw a chocolate spider in one corner!

Oscar’s verdict: Delicious!

Vanilla Birthday Cake