Our former
neighbour, the lovely Isabella, had invited us to her birthday party.
On the evening before, her mother send a text to ask, if I was bringing a cake.
With two
small children at home baking and decorating a cake really was not on the
agenda, but….. I have been making
cakes for Isabella since she was a very little girl, and having kids of my own really
shouldn’t change that…., so I opted for a quick and simple layered cake:
Three thin
cake sheets (2 eggs whisked white with 80 grams of sugar + 40 grams of flour,
30 grams of cocoa powder, a pinch of salt, ½ tea spoon vanilla sugar and ½ tea
spoon baking powder. Spread out on baking paper covered baking tray and bake
for 6-8 minutes at 200 degrees).
Creamy
custard for one layer (as I was in a hurry I cheated and used Dr. Oetker, where
you just add milk and cocoa powder to disguise the nasty synthetic taste (most
people don’t even notice).
Whipped
cream and strawberries for the second layer.
All covered
in blue fondant and lots of fondant balloons.
