Today is Tian's 4th Birthday and Tao's 2nd Birthday two days later but we celebrated the girls birthday together last Sunday.
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!
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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.
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Tian's Princess birthday cake. She thought I made the cake for her but in fact I only decorated the sponge cake.
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Tao's Mickey Mouse birthday cake.
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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.
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'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.
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Tian and Tao getting ready for candle blowing.
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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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