I havent blogged in a while- i'm sorry but i've had exams to revise for(:
So this year is Jubilee year. I am not a particularly patriotic person, but any excuse for a tea-party and i'm there! This coffee cake was a special request from my brother and so I thought what can I give this to make it special and stand out? The Union Jack of course! Unfortunately I am away in Germany for the celebrations for my German exchange, and so thought I may as well make my present to the British Tiny-Baker-Blog-Readers now.
To be honest it was a bit of a disaster at first! My baking bestie- my electric whisk- broke, much to my despair, and so I attempted to battle on by hand, a very brave challenge if I may say so myself. After a few tears to my ever loving mum, we soon defeated the carroty coffeey mess, and it began to look a bit like a light, airy and delicious batter (I was stressed out because of revision- and so stupidly decided I was going to try and do a more difficult and time consuming cake than necessary. I blame my brother!) Oh well- I do like to challenge myself!
Once rising in the oven, I cracked onto the icing. I made one portion of butter icing (I increased the ingredients by a 1/3 each, as I was going to split them into 4 different piles.) Once fluffed and smooth, a bit of a muscle builder, although unfortunately only in my right arm, I put a scoopful of icing into 4 different bowls, adding a few drops of blue into one red into the other, and a tiny bit of coffee essence into the other. One is left plain to be the white on the U.J. I prayed for my artistic skills to come to light and began the hefty task of making my cake look vaguely like a proud national representative of the best of British- cake.
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| There- My gift to the country(: |
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| Petals really are the best cake decorations- Please do get some! |
Hope you enjoy- don't forget to comment if you like!
Love
The Tiny Baker :)
xox
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