Birthday cake for me

As always the case when I  organize a dinner party (or anything else for that matter), things generally turn out completely different than expected and this year for my birthday was no exception:

I was looking forward to serving up a gourmet dinner, consisting of a 10 course meal in the privacy of our own home. I had found a chef to cook the meal (so my mother and I would not have to do any cooking or serving). Regrettably, the chef turned out to be a very shifty character - totally unreliable - so at the very last minute I ended up making reservations at Grønbeck & Churchill (http://www.gronbech-churchill.dk), and I found my self baking a cake!

The cake was a regular layered cake with chocolate mousse and chocolate ganache. As there was very little time the decoration left a lot to be desired......

Circus tent cake (with sugar clown)

Our upstairs neighbor has a daughter. She's a tiny little thing, with a enormous temper and a distinctive preference for colours and circus.

This lively girl turned 2 years old this past weekend, and when her mother suggested to me, that she did not feel up to baking a cake for the birthday party, I readily offered my cake making services (voluntarily and free of charge).

She seemed ever so relieved and grateful, that I didn't tell her, that I offered to do the cake for purely selfish reasons: I so wanted to do a circus tent! Unfortunately, it didn't turn out at all the way I had imagined it - strange how that seems to be the case with cakes as with live!

The cake is four layers of Victoria sponge, orange syrup and raspberry butter creme. Very yummy!

The clown (which I was actually quite pleased with) is 100% sugar.