Happy Birthday Daddy
I had made plans to celebrate hubb’s birthday. But had to cancel all of them when my major project deadline fell exactly on hubb’s birthday.
So I decided to make up for the lack of celebration by self-baking a cake for him on the weekend following his birthday. Besides, I know the kids would love to have a birthday cake to sing & blow candles for.
Hubb is very picky when it comes to cakes, all thanks to aunt who used to bake and sell gourmet cakes. I use to hang out at my aunt’s house frequently and she will spoil us with her baked goodies. Her cakes are better than Secret Recipe or Manila Place. That’s how good they are to us.
So pretty cupcakes are a No-No.
So I decided to make a chocolate banana cake. I used a choc mud cake recipe, with whipped choc ganache frosting and banana fillings, covered with rich choc ganache.
For decorations, i have to thank my dear fren, who gave me some fondant that she had made herself. Initially she gave me some of the basic ingredients for fondant. But since I am only using the fondant for some minor decoration, I asked if she would give me some made fondant…and I am so glad when she said she have some that she could give to me…*muaks* *muaks*
So here’s the cake.

It was really fun to assemble the cake. The best part is making the fondant decorations. Now i can understand why so many people want to do the cupcake/ fondant cake business. It is a really fun way to make money.
As expected, both the boys were very happy to see the cake when they woke up from their afternoon nap.

I only managed to take one family photo (using tripod). I am not 100% happy with this one as Dylan looked blur-blur. But what to do ah… As the timer was ticking away for this photo, hubb’s phone rang.

As soon as we took this photo, hubb rushed to answer the call which turned out to be a call fr his office asking him to look into something urgent.
By the time he was done with work, it was time to go to MIL’ house. We’re late for our steamboat dinner.
So we packed the cake to MIL for dessert.
Here’s how the cake looks like inside…moist & rich!

Happy belated birthday hubb…we’ll have a belated celebration soon ok…










