After my catastrophic efforts to save money by baking birthday cakes instead of buying for family members last year, I vowed to keep trying. Never say die, up girl and bake, right? Read here about what happened when I baked for my 2-year-old daughter, Rudairo, in November 2015. .Well, it doesn't look like things are improving much this year. The pictures below tell the full horrific tale.
23 November 2015
12 January 2016
I decided to bake a two-layered moist chocolate cake on the eve of my son Victor's birthday. He was turning 10. To make up for the icing challenges, I bought ready-made icing, and slept well assured that nothing could go wrong this time.
I woke up to find he had dug a hole in the centre from top to base |
Determined not to fail this time around, I dashed to the shops to buy cupcakes to do some patchwork. Unfortunately I could not find chocolate ones and had to make do with vanilla ones. |
We placed the candles and joyously sang "Happy Birthday to You Vicky", and he blew his candles. So we can safely say I iced and aced it haha! |
You can never hide the truth forever. After cutting, the true colours Cyndie Lauper sang about started showing J |
9 February 2016
I had my husband's cake professionally made at Bakers Corner, Matsapha. The joint is known far and wide for making very good cakes. I decided against baking at home because we were having a dinner party and I did not want to embarrass myself and have the guests feel sorry for me and say, "At least you tried, shame!" I sent a whatsapp message requesting a Manchester United cake. I was quite relaxed because, come on, these were professionals who baked and delivered cakes everyday. What could possibly go wrong? Nothing!
that was a beautiful cake though,, maybe it would have been better him eating it blind-folded lol
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