Preparation

Getting ready for cake decorating and making this weekend! I'm using Planet Cake recipes for coconut cake and for the ganache. I've used them before and they've been popular (and my mother-in-law requested it). I also bought some new tools from "The Raspberry Butterfly", so hopefully it will be a little easier to ice the cake this time.

60th Birthday Cake

The month of cake, as I have now dubbed October 2011, is kicking off in style with a 3-day cake extravaganza. I will be baking a birthday cake for my mother-in-law and it is going to be a lot of work. The plan is a coconut cake with dark chocolate ganache and blue fondant icing with a white bow on top (as requested by the birthday girl). Baking starts on Friday night, ganaching on Saturday and icing on Sunday. Hopefully I've learned lessons from my previous big cake experience this year and it will be a little less stressful. This is not going to be the regular calibre of cakes for this month (though I hope they will all taste good). I have some cakes already schedule (though not for the Red Cross fundraiser): cupcakes for Reg and Joseph's housewarming (red velvet perhaps?) and Legoman or Spongebob cake for my nephew's 6th birthday. I really will have to go to the gym every day in October...

Hey! Welcome to my baking blog - this will be the home of recipes, stories, videos and pictures of my cake making adventures in October, most of which will be for the Australian Red Cross Big Cake Bake. My fundraising page is at: http://www.redcrossfundraising.org.au/sarah_white_0

x Sarah