Happy Birthday Oscar

Our grandson Oscar has turned one and we had a small party to celebrate. Not that a one year old really understands about parties but more from the belief that occasions and milestones need to be recognised and celebrated. It is such a joy to be Oscar’s Nanna.

What is a birthday party without cake? Nanna was so pleased to make his cake, based on the children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

The first step was to make the caterpillar cake topper. When making this type of decoration from icing you need to allow some time to dry, so I made it a couple of weeks ago. The toothpicks are to help anchor the caterpillar onto the top of the cake.

In the book the caterpillar eats his way through a lot of fruits and food and the circles are around the pages so I made these to decorate the sides of the cake.

For the cake, I thought that a rainbow layer cake would be appropriate and used my favourite mud cake recipe, the white version. The mixture was divided into six bowls, each bowl coloured and then baked. I used standard  7 inch sponge tins. The frosting between the layers and over the cake is white chocolateganache, whipped until thick and fluffy.

This is a smallish cake and more for cutting. The white chocolate cupcakes are easier to serve and eat and also box up and take home.

A few party pics.

Not sure why everyone is singing.

Cutting the cake, not a real knife,

Parties are fun.

A glimpse of the revellers.