i started planning boo's second birthday cake a couple of months ago. at the time, he was into Pororo and Friends so i thought i'd make him a Pororo and Friends themed cake. i got my cake decorating master, Myfanwy, to help me with the figurines in October. we made three figurines together- Pororo the penguin, Crong the dinosaur and Petty the female penguin. we talked about the design and i was all ready to make a Pororo and Friends theme birthday cake.
when his birthday finally came around, he started getting less excited about Pororo and more obsessed with Peppa Pig. partly because he has just been to the Peppa Pig live show at the Sydney Opera House two weeks ago. so, a day before his birthday, i decided to make him some Peppa Pig cupcakes for our mini celebration at home. he was so excited when he saw those cupcakes. the next day, Jim suggested to me that i should change the theme of birthday cake for the party to Peppa Pig. with only four days till the party, i had to come up with the design, make the figurines and start planning on how i could get the cake done in four days.
so, on Thursday, the first thing i did when i got home from work was to bake the cake. i took a day off work on Friday to complete the top tier and to make all the figurines (the house, the sun, Peppa and George). i also covered the cake with a layer of chocolate ganache and coloured a kilo of white fondant into blue to cover the cake the next day. on Saturday, i covered the bottom layer of the cake and i put all the components of the cake together.
i'm quite pleased with the result. this is the first time i've completed all the components of a birthday cake by myself - with a lot of SOS text messages to my cake decorating master, Myfanwy, no less but i did it on my own. perhaps i've missed my actual calling to be a cake decorator and it's time for a career change?!?
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