Birthday cake | The Complete Book

Isn’t that the most wonderful theme for a gorgeous little girl’s 6th birthday party. Precious little Becky (my Godson Jamie’s sister) knows what she wants. Got to love the finite decisions of this adorable youngster plus her insight of not wanting the boys to be left out with just a Ballerina theme.

The party invite – I removed the address and telephone details for privacy

Can’t believe it was a month ago we celebrated Becky’s 6th birthday and I am only sharing it with you now. Pete was home that week so was able to join me for the trip to Plett to visit with family and attend this awesome birthday party. It was a special and fun weekend.

While all the final preparations for the party were under way, I snapped a few shots for the memory coffers.

Becky was very happy to do a photo shoot in the garden and it seems brother Jamie also wanted in on the action, especially seeing as he was using every antic in the book not to get out of his pj’s. 🙂

Breakfast consisted of some yoghurt and a couple of chocolates thrown in for good measure. You got to love birthday party day preparations.

The birthday cake was a perfect and exquisite combination of the theme Ballerina and Batman. The top half was a wonderful vanilla,the bottom half a decadent chocolate.

Even Bonnie dog was adorned with decorations. At one stage she even had a tutu on.The gift table quickly filled up with beautifully wrapped presents for the birthday girl.

Becky had a splendid day with her friends and they all enjoyed playing pass the parcel, statues aka the freezing game, arts and crafts, creating masterpieces in the sandpit and bouncing on the trampoline.

Love you all, high as the sky.

I hope we will be able to enjoy Becky’s birthday with her next year. I cannot wait to find out what theme she will choose.

Lando is our deaf handyman / gardener who takes wonderful care of our home and garden every week.

Lando only became deaf as an adult and has adapted to being deaf as if he was born that way. He reads lips perfectly and we are still in the stop start throws (when time allows) of learning sign together. We have created a few of our own signs to better communicate with each other for the days when my Afrikaans and his English aren’t quite on the same page.

Lando asked if I would bake his daughter a birthday cake for her second birthday. He said he didn’t want those little things that I like making (cupcakes), he wanted one big cake. So not knowing which cake recipe would be best as I make all of them into cupcakes, I decided to use the one I converted last which was the dairy free recipe, you know, my new favourite recipe. I made a double portion and was thrilled with the result even though I probably turned the cakes out a wee bit soon and left a morsel of the centre of the cake at the bottom of the baking tin. Oops.

Only problem I had was when it came to the icing – I wanted princess pink for this little 2 year old but alas it kinda came out orangeish which did not sit well with my OCD issues but time did not allow to remake the icing plus there was barely any time to ice the cake before it had to get whisked off to the birthday girl. I wonder if it is because my food colouring is getting old?

No matter, all’s well that ends well and the cake was a hit!