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  • I am Sarah: 43 year old Canadian-American, tea-drinking, feminist, agnostic, (former) homeschooling, crafty, domestic-artist-wanna-be, island-dwelling mother to Maxine (age 7), Asa (age 10) and Lee (age 13). this blog is dedicated to urban Island dwelling, creative endeavours and household minutiae.

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Maxine's birthday cake

poppy cake, garden cake, gumpaste, sugar paste, flowers, bees, ladybugs, flower cake

i am seriously enjoying cake decorating!  

our garden was my inspiration for this cake.  these lovely poppies

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and this weigela shrub

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made their way on to the cake in the form of gumpaste flowers

gumpaste sugar paste poppies bees ladybugs

i brushed them with water which gives them a bit of shine (i learned this accidentally on another cake!!) 

the cake was 3 square tiers from some pans my mother-in-law gave me that i had never used before.  it was a double recipe of White Cake from The 1997 Joy of Cooking  (this edition is better than later ones IMO--that cookbook never fails me!!! it has the best baking recipes)  I used Seven Minute Frosting because it's pretty and tastes really good.  so far it seems that no one really eats the fondant when i've used it- it's just too sweet.

delicious and fun.  i'm going to have to find some more people who need me to make them a birthday cake...

June 13, 2011 |

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