The Big one

This was a cake to accommodate 100 people – the cake was for one year old and the occasion was child dedication. I am not religious person but ceremony was kind of introduction of morals and values to this kid. It was actually nice as an idea.

So the cake was to be simple and pure in a way.  Outside at least!

The flavors I chose were of the fruit of forest and orange which is my favorite combination.  Colors- pink.

Having in mind that this cake was to not to take an attention from the ceremony and also it was to be held in other town  - transport might  be an issue so I made five smaller cakes and put them together as one Big one.

I chose a simple flower – five petals and center was made of pop cakes imitating pollen.

I used 10 sponges (200g of self-rising flour, 200g of caster sugar, 200g of butter, 3 egg, and 15mls of water) for five petals – each petal was filled with raspberry jam, orange buttercream (5x75g of butter, 5x175g of icing sugar, 5x3 table spoons of milk and orange peel ) and forest fruits. Some cakes were cut/shaped so cakes sit nicely next to each other.  Each individual cake – petal was covered with orange flavored -buttercream and pink icing. Each petal was circled with pink ribbon.

Decoration was simple   - butterflies – different sizes – 5 per cake. Chocolate buttons on top.

Also name was cut out from icing.

Pop cakes (sponge cut of the cake mixed with icing and left over forest fruit) were covered with (yellow colored) white chocolate. I spiked up the chocolate so it looks more like pollen. Also jelly sweets were put on to fill the space.