Thursday 14 April 2011

The second baking from the cupboards special edition

You may remember my Spongebob post where I created a cake (mostly from the cupboards) for the organisation Free Cakes for Kids Oxford . On Tuesday afternoon the group recieved an email after the coordinator had been contacted asking if there was any chance that a cake could be made for a little girl turning one on Friday. I knew that I had cake-making-things in the cupboards at home and offered to make one. Here is the result!

It's a 3 egg madeira, which I split and filled with raspberry jam, and then crumb coated with buttercream before covering it in rolled fondant. I then coloured some of the remaining fondant pink and made the balloons and stars.

I met the little girl and her Mum (and one of her five brothers) on Wednesday lunchtime and her Mum was so pleased that she gave me a hug - it's a tough time for the family at the moment and I was nearly in tears that something which I had enjoyed doing so much could make a little bit of difference in their lives.

10 comments:

  1. What a pretty cake. Nice to know there's some jammy happiness in their little lives thanks to you.

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  2. Aw, Verity what a lovely idea and such a sweet cake!

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  3. This is just such a lovely idea. You are fab.

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  4. Such a pretty cake and what a lovely thing to do. Can you imagine having five brothers!?

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  5. Oh what a wonderful organisation. Such a simple thing but it can make such a difference. Lovely cake, and lovely that it was so appreciated. Good for you Verity!

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  6. The cake is beautiful. What a wonderful organization - good for you!

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  7. That cake looks beautiful, no wonder the little girl's mum gave you a hug. Such a kind and caring thing to do.

    I pulled the first lot of rhubarb in our garden today. Have shared it around 6 of our neighbours as there was far too much for the two of us to eat in one go. So that's my good deed for the day.

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  8. That is such a beautiful cake! That is so kind of you - to bring a little happiness and sunshine into other lives :-)

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  9. Lovely.

    I do admire you having the time to do this, but the satisfaction on their faces must make it all worth the while.

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  10. Oh that is so nice verity, you are such a nice person.

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