Well, yesterday was my mums birthday and so we were having a
family dinner at my parents house to celebrate. We were also celebrating my
older brother’s birthday which is one week before my mum’s. Now, since we no
longer exchange birthday gifts between siblings, I didn’t have to worry about a
gift for my brother, but what to get for my mum? She continually tells us that
we don’t need to get her anything, she just wants our time (as in, spend time
with her). However, I already see a lot of my mum and so I felt that wasn’t
really a big gift from me. So I decided that I would make her a gift this year.
I purchased a counted cross stitch kit that I was going to
do for her for mothers day, but I had unfortunately misplaced it somewhere and
so she didn’t get it. Thankfully it turned up just in time for me to make it
for her birthday (I found it the week before). So, I spent all my spare time in
the week leading up to my mum’s birthday making this beautiful cross stitch for
her. In that week, I did also have a wedding to attend and spent most of the
weekend doing that, and hanging out at my in-laws, so that cut into my
stitching time – and I forgot how long counted cross stitch takes. This
resulted in me being up quite late on Thursday night so I had it done in time
to present it to my mum last night at dinner!
I also baked my mum a cake for her birthday (and a spare one
to take to work). My mum’s favourite cake is carrot cake, so that’s what she
got. I tried a new recipe out for this cake as the previous cake recipes I’ve
tried have been nice, but nothing special. This recipe came from a Planet Cake cake
decorating book that I have at home. The icing however, is my recipe and is a
beautiful white chocolate cream cheese icing. I was really happy with how it
turned out and everyone at my mum’s work raved about the cake, and everyone
last night really enjoyed it as well.
Icing Recipe:
Ingredients:
250g Cream Cheese
210g Nestle White Chocolate Melts
100mL Sour Cream
3 Cups Icing Sugar
1 – 3 Tablespoons Vanilla
Method:
Beat cream cheese until light and fluffy. Add sour cream and
continue beating. Melt chocolate in microwave in 30 second increments, stirring
until smooth with no lumps. Add to cream cheese mixture and beat until smoothly
combined. Add icing sugar 1 cup at a time until your icing is a consistency
that you are happy with. Add vanilla to taste (personally I like a stronger
vanilla flavour) while the mixer is going. Ice cake!
Now, I used triple the amount of ingredients as I was icing
two cakes and they were layer cakes. I also wasn’t measuring what I was using
so the figures in my recipe are approximations. As with all baking, make sure
you taste as you go to get a texture and flavour that you are happy with.
Hope you enjoy it!
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