My Culinary Capers: A two-tier birthday cake for my princess

Amelia is turning 6 and boy, is she getting assertive! ;-) Well, I can't really grumble about it because just 3 years prior, I was fretting over why she was still babbling in her baby language.

So now that she can express herself a lot more clearly, she turned to me one morning on the way to school and said in all seriousness, "Mummy, I don't want a princess or Barbie cake. I want you to make a three-tier cake for my birthday!"

And so began my baking adventure. I'd never created a three-tier cake, so I had to learn everything right down to stacking the cakes. I found this really inspiring book titled Katrien's Cakes which is filled with beautiful pictures and easy-to-follow steps.

I'd already planned two parties for her: a small one at her kindergarten for her classmates and the main event at The Rink in J Cube.

Obviously, I couldn't chance it for the main event. So I decided to bake a two-tier cake for her kindergarten party as an experiment and for practice ;-)

For the two-tier cake, I baked a vanilla cake with white chocolate frosting. Of course, everything had to be home-made for my princess, so I made pink chocolate paste ribbons and chocolate hearts, butterflies and flowers in pastel colors. Plus cake pops to top off the cake. It turned out to be less challenging than expected. Phew! I'm now ready for the three-tier cake...