SteemFoods Contest -19- | Prepare a Special Cake for Mother's Day! | Special Vanilla Cake|Happy Mother's Day,Sweet Mum by @afunkycares

INTRODUCTION

Hello friends, hope you all are doing great?

It's another beautiful contest organised by @steemitfoods. I really appreciate @alikoc07 for this initiative as it was a way for me to say "thank you to my mum for all she does".

I actually thought of doing this for her coming birthday plus other surprise gifts. Well, Making another cake isn't enough to thank her for everything she's been doing especially since when I've lost dad. Mum is a strong and supportive mother of 4 children.

Thank you @steemitfoods for this opportunity.

SPECIAL VANILLA CAKE

So, I made a special Vanilla Cake to celebrate Mother's Day for my sweet mum.

RECIPE

• Flour - 400g
• Butter- 300g
• Sugar- 350g
• Eggs -8 large sized
• Flavour-Vanilla 1tsp
• Baking powder - 4 tsp
• Preservative- ½tsp
• Buttermilk - ½cup

Instead of using regular water for this recipe,I used buttermilk to give a special richer taste.

MAKING THE SPECIAL VANILLA CAKE

• Cream butter and sugar till fluffy

• Prepare the heart baking pan and set aside.
  To do this,simply rub in butter all over the pan thoroughly and dust some flour all round to cover thoroughly.This prevent cake from sticking to the pan when it is baked.
  

• Measure and sift flour.

• Add baking powder and preservative to flour and mix well. Keep aside.

• To the creamed butter and sugar,add flavour and mix

*If you don't have buttermilk,you can simply prepare it and leave to sit for 5- 10 mins.

For I cup of buttermilk,

• measure 1 tablespoon of white vinegar/lemon juice and pour into the measuring cup
• Add milk to fill up the cup

This makes 1 cup of buttermilk,so for half cup, I just divided the recipe by two.(½tbsp of white vinegar to ½cup of milk)

• While leaving it to sit, whisk the eggs till it peaks and fluffy.

• Add whisked eggs to creamed Butter and sugar and mix well.

• Now add flour and buttermilk by alternating, starting and ending with flour : add ⅓flour & mix,add ½ buttermilk and mix, add the second⅓ flour,mix,add remaining ½ buttermilk ,mix ,add final⅓ flour and mix
  I added the two and mix well. But be careful not to overmix.

• Scoop into the prepared heart pan and bake for about 25 mins. I baked in two places.

• Cake is completely baked when the skewa comes out clean after dipping into the middle of the cake.

Vanilla Cake is Ready!

FROSTING AND DECORATING THE CAKE

First thing to do now is to prepare the butter cream,also called butter icing, for frosting.

RECIPE FOR BUTTER CREAM

• Butter 150g
• Icing Sugar 500g
• Flavour Butterscotch ¼tsp
• White vinegar ¼tsp (optional)
• Water 2tbsp

MAKING THE BUTTER CREAM

• First, cream butter till light and fluffy.
• Sift icing sugar into a clean bowl.
• Add icing sugar to butter gradually and mix in.

• Add water and mix.

• Add flavour & white vinegar and mix.

Now the buttercream is ready, frosting begins.

FROSTING

I divided the buttercream into 3 portions
To one portion,I added edible pink colouring and mix well,to the second portion,purple colouring and mix well., leaving the third portion plain.

mixing in pink colouring,same was done for purple

Altogether, I have the pink, purple and the plain cream butter icing.

MATERIALS

• Piping Bag
• Coupler
• Decorating Comb
• Triangular Comb
• Offset Palette Knife
• Nozzles 2 ,2D,352

First step

• Sandwich the two heart cakes together ,level the top one and crumbcoat using offset palette knife

For this frosting,I combined purple and pink.

• First, put in the coupler into the Piping bag,scoop the purple icing and twist the end. To prevent mess. Do the same for the pink icing.

• Applying the purple first,round the cake about three times,line by line.

• Apply the pink next and cover the top of the cake too,like this👇

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• Smoothen the top with the palette knife. Texturize with triangular Comb

• Next ,smoothen the side of cake using the Decorating comb

• Then using the Big Nozzle 2D, I did some rosettes on the top edges👇

• Then I scooped some plain buttercream into Piping bag,coupled it with writing nozzle 2, I wrote "Happy Mother's Day"on the cake.

• With same nozzle, I wrote " Sweet Mum" on the cake board.

• With the leaf nozzle 352, I added some leaves around the rosettes.

I had printed mum's picture as cake topper.

So I finished off by adding some sprinkles and then inserted the picture cake topper in the cake.

And Our Cake is Ready!....

I presented the cake to mum when she came home. She was happy and prayed for me.

I'm glad she likes the cake.

Special thanks to @steemitfoods and @alikoc07 for this awesome opportunity to put more smiles on my mum's face.

Happy Mother's Day to every mum in the world.

Thank you all for reading.
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