I had quite a hard time planning their cakes as I did not want them to share a cake for candle blowing (superstitions?) so I had to find a way to buy a cake for eating and another 'spare' one just for candle blowing (My hubby and his parents do not like sweet stuff so I know I will end up having to finish up 2 cakes and it would be a waste if I was not able to do so). Tian mentioned she wanted princess cartoons on her cake and Tao was into anything Mickey Mouse at the moment so I decided to order a black forest cake with a Mickey Mouse as decoration and I more or less forced the bakery to sell me a sugar/ icing thingy with princess cartoon. Then I bought a normal sponge cake from another bakery, did some chocolate frosting for the sides, sprinkled some colourful sugar rice onto the cake before pasting the cartoon on the top. So I got another cake for Tian according to her request at a cheaper cost and to her satisfaction. Heh!
I cut out their names from coloured A4 paper and it was too tiring so I decided to print the 'Happy Birthday' wordings from computer and cut them out.
Tian's Princess birthday cake. She thought I made the cake for her but in fact I only decorated the sponge cake.
Tao's Mickey Mouse birthday cake.
Jelly made from Dutch Lady strawberry flavoured and chocolate flavoured milk. I wrapped the packet drinks with coloured paper and pasted Disney cartoon stickers and the girls were happy to drink from their favourite cartoons.
'Mee Suah' in red yeast wine chicken soup. Foochow people in my home town practise cooking this for birthdays and we have adapted to that culture.
Tian and Tao getting ready for candle blowing.
My 2 sweet girls: One is 4 years old and another one is going to be 2 in 2 days time. I hope they grow up happy, obedient and healthy.
4 comments:
You decorated that cake yourself? Gosh! It's so very beautiful... Aha! You had mee sua...! Good, keeping to your roots! LOL!!!
Thanks, I like to make things beautiful if I have the time. I wish I had more time to indulge in baking, sewing etc but my kids are handful now, plus I need to work at home.
I love Mee Suah or any dishes cooked with red yeast wine. I could have Mee Suah every meal for 2 days. When I was in confinement, my Foochow confinement lady from Sibu was so glad I could polish off everything she prepared. She said very seldom she could see new mother who had such good appetite. Luckily, I did not gain weight after confinement and nobody believed me when I told them I ate 6 meals a day.
Happy Birthday to your girls:)
I love the cake you decorated. It looked store bought to me.
In Auckland, the cartoon icing thingie can be bought from supermarket or cake shop.
I think we can buy them at shops selling baking stuff but I did not know where the shops are.
The cake looked presentable but not nice to eat because it was just normal sponge cake but my daughter liked the chocolate frosting I made and the colourful rice sugar.
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