Queen Messy's Blog

Friday, June 1st:
Today I got home from school at 4.30. I started mixing the Marzipan for Mom’s cake (it’s going to have a flamingo on it, so I needed different shades of pink). It was hard to get all the right shades, but in the end I managed these:

Then my mom reminded me that my sister was having her birthday party tomorrow, along with a friend, and that I should make them a cake. Then I discovered I do not ever want to make a single normal cake again, the square chocolate kind with nugatti on top. There has to be more, I want all the cakes I make to be classified as my “creative cakes”.

So I spent half an hour thinking about what kind of cake to make for my sister, and her friend, while mixing the marzipan. Then it came to me, I want to make them heart-cakes. I used two square forms we have, and and a double batch of the normal chocolate cake recipe. I traced the shapes on paper, and after baking I cut the cakes.

For the icing, I mixed some fluffy light colored chocolate icing we had in the fridge, with half a box of Nugatti, and a few tablespoons of coco-powder. I had just enough for tho cakes.Then I made some pink marzipan and rolled it out to be two very long thin pieces, which twined/braided and lay around then edges of the cakes, and as the letter S for Solveig and G for Gina in the middle of the cakes. The marsipan broke a few times, but it was easy to pinch it together again. I had a dinner break between 6.30 and 7.30, and washed up between 20.45 and 21.15, and finished at 23.30, so that is 5 hours and 30 minutes for creativity.

Saturday, June 2nd:
Today I continued on the cakes for Solveig and Gina. I had wrapped them in plastic, and when I took that off at 13.30 today, the pink marzipan had turned red! Maybe the marzipan soaked up water from the icing and the water made the food coloring stronger. It looked good anyway, though. The cakes were still pretty plain, though, and my mom suggested that I decorate them with flowers.

So my sister went out and got some violets, while I picked lots of mint from a mint garden we have. I cut the stems of all the violets very short, and stuck them in the side of the cakes. That way, they didn’t cover any really nice parts,and it was easy to make them face the right way. I also took four of the smallest violets, they had leaves on the bottom, and stuck two of them in the top of each cake. However, they were heavy and didn’t stand up straight, so I bent them and laid them down in the icing. They still looked good. In the end, I laid lots of mint around both of the cakes, because one of the platters was ugly, so I had to hide it. The mint, which is bright green, fits very well with the red of the marzipan, the violet of the violets, and the brown of the chocolate. Placing the flowers and the mint took at very long time, as it had to be perfect. I finished at 16.00, so that is 2 hours 30 minutes for creativity.Then they ate about half a cake, because they had had so much hamburgers and hot-dogs. I hate when that happens. I rearranged the red marzipan on one of the cakes, made an an E for Ellen, my mother, and I’ll skip making the flamingo cake for her birthday on Monday. It was her idea. I don’t have time anyway.