It has begun… My baking day for my baby’s first birthday party was the most fun i have had in some time! ( and i might just add consequently from all the tasting that ‘had’ to be done i am now on a 21 day cheat free diet )
Now the most complicated of them all would have to be the Lucy Cake… My precious little one has a doll we call Lucy and when deciding what her first birthday cake should be my step son, georges brother came up with the idea of a Lucy Cake! I dont think i ever would have thought of it if it wasnt for him – thanx josh!!
OK So first things first… I made a chocolate cake – ok thats a lie, i made three different sized chocolate cakes and boy oh boy was there A LOT of chocolate in these cakes!!!
I grabbed the recipe from Smitten Kitchen which you can find here, i used EXACTLY her recipe and i can tell you that the raw batter was to die for… IT WAS TO DIE FOR PEOPLES!!! And not only that once it was baked it was even more scrumptious, and i have to say if you are going to make a rich choclate cake… MAKE THIS ONE!!
Ok so once the cake was made and frozen (i kept it in the freezer for a few days so it stayed fresh while i was baking my other goodies) Anywho, on the day of the party i got the cake from the freezer and using the template i had created i simply cut out the peices while the cakes were still frozen as it made it much easier to cut 
Then came the icing i made a simple royal icing by beating 4 egg whites, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and a kilo of icing sugar (pure, not mixture) I split the batter into three and added black to one, yellow to another and left one white. I got the colours from a specialty shop, they were like a concentrate so the colours came out much richer than the normal (cheaper) colours would have…
I then spent THREE HOURS, yup three whole hours icing and adding licorice hair to this thing!
Then, smarties for the cheeks to finish it off and VWALLA… One AWESOME birthday cake….
So who’s partys next?
