D-d's birthday.
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curiouswombatDaughter-dear is 24 today. It doesn't seem that long since I was writing on my journal about her going to visit her Australian grandparents in her school holidays...
She came home for her dinner tonight, to pick up her presents, and to have cake. You can't have a birthday without cake and candles, after all.
S2C had bought her a new laptop, I owe her a new desk chair, she just hasn't found one she likes yet, and so I bought her a couple of small things to open on the day.
But mainly I cooked fajitas (one of her favourite meals) and cakes.
I thought you might like to see
Instead of a big cake I did a selection of cup cakes and got out my grandmother's cake stand.
I baked last night - but decorated them all after finishing work at 5.00pm. Pardon the background - my kitchen is lovingly cluttered!
The top layer are vanilla sprinkled with gold star dust and gold candles, the lower layer are coffee and pecan and caramel egg chocolate cakes. What? Yes, caramel egg chocolate cakes - I'll show you more in a minute.
But first, here we are with the candles lit -
Now for the caramel egg cakes - this is an adaptation of something I saw last year - the cup cake with the Cadbury's cream egg in the middle! My version is smaller, and what I buried in it was a Cadbury's mini caramel egg, instead. Then, when baked, it is topped with chocolate butter cream and white chocolate chips. Sort of a tiny death by chocolate! This is how it looks when you cut it -
and, finally, I thought you might wonder what the cake-stand looks like - so I put the remaining cakes on the bottom so that you can see the flowers.
The angle is odd - the top tier is, as is traditional, smaller than the bottom one, honestly. I think it is 70-80 years old, but I'm not sure, to be honest.
D-d really loved the idea of a stand of mini birthday cakes - it was definitely a hit.
She came home for her dinner tonight, to pick up her presents, and to have cake. You can't have a birthday without cake and candles, after all.
S2C had bought her a new laptop, I owe her a new desk chair, she just hasn't found one she likes yet, and so I bought her a couple of small things to open on the day.
But mainly I cooked fajitas (one of her favourite meals) and cakes.
I thought you might like to see
Instead of a big cake I did a selection of cup cakes and got out my grandmother's cake stand.
I baked last night - but decorated them all after finishing work at 5.00pm. Pardon the background - my kitchen is lovingly cluttered!
The top layer are vanilla sprinkled with gold star dust and gold candles, the lower layer are coffee and pecan and caramel egg chocolate cakes. What? Yes, caramel egg chocolate cakes - I'll show you more in a minute.
But first, here we are with the candles lit -
Now for the caramel egg cakes - this is an adaptation of something I saw last year - the cup cake with the Cadbury's cream egg in the middle! My version is smaller, and what I buried in it was a Cadbury's mini caramel egg, instead. Then, when baked, it is topped with chocolate butter cream and white chocolate chips. Sort of a tiny death by chocolate! This is how it looks when you cut it -
and, finally, I thought you might wonder what the cake-stand looks like - so I put the remaining cakes on the bottom so that you can see the flowers.
The angle is odd - the top tier is, as is traditional, smaller than the bottom one, honestly. I think it is 70-80 years old, but I'm not sure, to be honest.
D-d really loved the idea of a stand of mini birthday cakes - it was definitely a hit.
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Date: 03/04/2012 08:41 pm (UTC)Please extend birthday greetings to D-d from Seattle.
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Date: 03/04/2012 08:44 pm (UTC)Those cupcakes look fabulous, and I have to agree with her food choice--fajitas are a favorite of mine, too!
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Date: 03/04/2012 08:47 pm (UTC)[BTW It's Pae's birthday today too. He's four!]
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Date: 03/04/2012 09:04 pm (UTC)Those cupcakes look super-delicious. Can I have a coffee & pecan one please?
The cake stand is very pretty. I think it would more likely be 80 years old than 70, as it shows no signs of Art Deco. I'm 73 on Saturday, and my Mum's china was more formal looking, and less pretty. Given that everything was in extremely short supply after the 2nd World War, it would be unlikely to be post WW2.
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Date: 03/04/2012 09:12 pm (UTC)I think you are absolutely right about the age of the cake-stand - my mother wasn't sure at all as it came from my paternal grandparents' house. Mum would have sent it to a charity shop if I hadn't rescued it when she was moving house herself!
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Date: 03/04/2012 09:04 pm (UTC)And those cupcakes look yummy.
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Date: 03/04/2012 09:14 pm (UTC)It feels like only a few years since you wrote to say "there was something a-tummy"
And it can't be that long ago as we are still young, aren't we?
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Date: 03/04/2012 09:29 pm (UTC)I really like the idea, I might pinch it. My daughter will be 25 this year (where did it go?) and she LOVES cupcakes.
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Date: 03/04/2012 09:40 pm (UTC)Please do! It also means people can have their own favourite if there is a mixture of flavours.
And these daughters do seem to grow up faster than we grow older...
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Date: 03/04/2012 10:02 pm (UTC)P.s. Cakes look delicious! :)
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Date: 03/04/2012 10:22 pm (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 03/04/2012 11:11 pm (UTC)The cake stand is very pretty (and the cakes look yummy, too).
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Date: 03/04/2012 11:18 pm (UTC)Lovely!
Happy birthday to your D-d.
:)
(And fajitas...one of my favourite meals as well!)
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Date: 04/04/2012 07:31 am (UTC)My mother had the cake-stand in a cupboard and when she was moving house said 'Oh, I don't need that, get rid of it.' I can guess the same thing probably happened to your grandmother's one :(
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Date: 03/04/2012 11:52 pm (UTC)Your cake stand looks to be early-mid 1950's, though it could be late 30's. If you up end it and take a photo of any mark on the bottom I'll see if I can date it for you.
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Date: 04/04/2012 07:36 am (UTC)There is, indeed, a mark on the bottom - I'll send you a picture of it. I must check with my mother that I am right about it being my paternal grandmother's - she just wasn't a 'footery-thing' sort of person so if it was hers it would surely have been a gift - and probably never used.
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Date: 04/04/2012 12:36 am (UTC)As for the cupcakes, they look scrumptious.
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Date: 04/04/2012 02:27 am (UTC)And hard to believe D-d is 24! Hope she had a great birthday!
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Date: 04/04/2012 07:43 am (UTC)And it is things like this that brings home to me just how long so many of us have been online friends. {{{Hugs my online friends}}}