EYBA'S BIRTHDAY CAKE 1 - STRAWBERRY SPONGE CAKE

First and Foremost I would like to thank everyone who had extended best birthday wishes to my princess EYBA.....thanks I really appreciated that and as a mom I wish all the best for her especially in her study and both "dunia dan akhirat". Her birthday felt on the day she had her March exam and I told her to focus on her exam and celebrate on Saturday. So we had a small little party cartered for 10 of her BFF (Best Friends For Ever) at home. Very simple and light party and the menu for the party were :-

White Fried Rice Vermicelli

Buffalo Chicken Wings

My Homemade Chicken Nuggets

Some Club Sandwichs

Espresso Chocolate Chips Cookies

Bread Caramel Pudding

as a door gift to the guests I packed Apam Polka Dot.

Everything when out out smoothly except the night before the birthday party....my goodness I'll almost have a heart attack.  I promised Eyba that I'll arrange her birthday party and I will bake her "the Rainbow Cake". She was really excited about the rainbow cake. However while assembling the rainbow cake two of the cake layer cracked and I freaked out.  It was 11 pm and the party was the next day. I have to forget about the rainbow cake and think of something else. Never want to disappoint my girl, and at almost midnight I have to move to plan B, bake another cake and this time around it should be a simple cake and no more disappointment.... A Sponge Cake !!! - my life saver !!!!

Thank God this time the cake turned out well. Early in the morning I made the butter cream and spread on the cake...as usual a typical me a simple decoration with sugar beads.....I'm not an expert in  decorations. By 10 am..my friend Sally dropped over to help me with the party and saw the cake. She said it was too plain and she helped me with three beautiful roses.....well she is the expert and it made a perfect sweet birthday cake for sweet 15.

I got everything ready for the party and while  the girls were having fun in the living room...I pulled Sally to the kitchen to assist me modifying the rainbow cake. That's me......I can't accept failure....yes dare to fail but not failed...so what I did with the rainbow cake...with Sally helps I reinvent it my way....the normal rainbow cake size is 6 - 8 '' I cut it into 4" size layered it with cream cheese frosting, Frosted the cake and asked my daughter Myraz to play with the sugar beads all over the cake. OMG it was lovely.....I almost throw the cake......but it turned out just nice. Put the candle with the words IBA and IBA made another birthdays wishes...with her second birthday cake so called "The Nightmare Rainbow Cake" (for full feature of the "The Nightmare Rainbow Cake")...see in my next entry.


Gosh a very dramatic birthday event and  the morale of the story and what you can learn from my experience was.....don't ever do things at last minutes. and don't take things for guanranted,  anticipate and be be alert for any  set back.....always have back up plan...Plan B< C...etc... that'w what I applied in my work and the same goes in the kitchen......!!!!!ha...ha...anyway one good thing I have, I always move beyond the limit when I'm in the freaking situation.  Ha...ha...don't you ever follow my style...bad for the HEART.

Strawberry Sponge Cake

Preparation Time – 20 minutes

Baking Time – 45 minutes

Ingredients

200gm Optima Ready Mix flour

4 large eggs (remove 2 yolks from 2 of the eggs)

10 ml water

15 ml milk

2.5 ml Pink food colouring/strawberry paste

20 g soft butter

Cream butter and eggs, briefly. Add the water, milk and flour. Beat in the mixer for about 8 minutes at medium speed. Add colouring and mix till blended.

Pour into a greased and lined pan or two if you are making sandwiched sponge. As this sponge is already slightly sweet, I whipped some cream (no sugar) to sandwich two layers of sponge cake and topped with more whipped cream. This cake would be nice if garnished with some strawberries too.

If you are going to use this cake for a birthday cake, best to use butter icing so that it can stand room temperature without melting.

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Akhirnya baru ada kesempatan hendak upload N3 birthday EYBA. Memang kalutn dibuatnya kali rasa hendak tercabut nyawa put ada. Saya suruh anak saya fokus pada examnya dan biarkan saya organizekan birthday party dia. A simple birthday party untuk EYBA dan lebih kurang 10 orang kawan terdekatnya.

Yang bestnya saya janjikan Eyba hendak buatkan dia Kek Rainbow....alahai suka sangat dia bila saya tunjuk gambar kek rainbow yang kekawan yang lain sudah buat. Malam sebelum party tu saya buatlah kek rainbow tu. Semua berjalan lancar..tetapi semasa saya hendak melapiskan kek rainbow tu dua daripadanya patah...mungkin terlalu lembut.....alamak...saya betul-betul panik..... jam dah pukul 11 malam... pukul berapa hendak tidor takkan sehari suntuk hendak ke dapur. Satu fael saya kalau saya sudah janji saya tidak suka menghampakan...jadi mahu tak mahu saya kena pukul kek lagi la...kali ini bukan rainbow...tak mampu saya hendak tunggu satu persatu...jadi saya gantikan kek rainbow dengan kek sponge strawberry. Bakar pada malam tu juga dan esoknya sesudah subuh saya buat buttercream...macam biasalah saya buat simple dan taburkankan manik-manik. Datang kawan saya hendak membantu persiapan party...katanya kek saya terlalu simple macam hendak minum petang  terlalu biasa... so Sally tambahkan tiga kuntum rose......Sally memang pandai bab kek ini. So semuanya beres dan berjalan lancar. Masa budak-budak tu sibuk dengan party mereka saya ajak Sally ke dapur untuk modified kek rainbow yang rosak tu....ialah saya janji EYba rainbow cake...dia dapat strawberry sponge...tak sedap la..jadi apa kita orang buat kita potong kek asal menjadikanya  saiz yang lebih kecil lebih kurang 4" layeredkan kek itu cheese cream frosting dan minta anak saya Myraz untuk corakkan cake. Letakkan lilin IBA dan EYBA sekali kali lagi tiup birthday cakenya. Wah...kerana malapetaka yang dibuat oleh rainbow cake EYbA tahun ini dapat 2 birthday cake...ha....bak kata orang dolu-dolu sesuatu kejadian itu ada hikmahnya...walau apa pun  moral cerita ini jangan tiru macam saya ya...jangan buat kerja last minit boleh menyirap darah dibuatnya.

Apa pun alahamdullilah dia happy dan dia suka sangat rainbow cake yang tak berapa nak jadi tu. Pada party tu saya buat simple menu sesuai untuk gadis-gadis sunti ni, menunya ialah

Bihun Goreng Putih

Kepak Ayam Buffalo Wings

Homemade Nuggets

Espresso Chocolate Chips

Club Sandwich

Bread Caramel Pudding

dan untuk door gift kawan-kawan Iba bawa balik saya buatkan Apam Polka Dot, dan akhir sekali ingin saya ucapkan jutaan terima kasih kepada semua yang menghantar ucapan hari jadi dan ucapan selamat buat puteri saya ini. Saya amat menghargainya dan sebagai seorang ibu kita senang kalau dapat menggembirakan anak kita dan sentiasa mendoakan kesejahteraanya dunia dan akhirat.

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