Celebrating a 4th Birthday with fruits & a dinosaur
For his 3rd birthday, he chose a strawberry cake so I was not in the least surprised that the request was for an orange, yoghurt, strawberry, apple, marshmallow cake for his 4th birthday. What a combination though! After putting some thought into it, we baked his cake together – a flourless orange cake topped with a tangy yoghurt icing, decorated with marshmallows, diced apples and strawberries and surrounded by apple cars.
I’ve made a 2-egg flourless orange cake before but this one from the SBS website called for 6 eggs, resulting in an ultra-moist mouthful. I encountered one potentially horrendous error, which was not greasing the bundt tin well enough before pouring the batter in. When I turned the cake out the top layer was left sticking to the tin and I had to scrape it out and place it gingerly atop the base of the cake. Fortunately, it was not obvious once I poured the thick yoghurt icing over it. As fate would have it, I also come across a great idea for making little cars out of apple slices and grapes that week and so could incorporate his apple request.
Another party on the weekend with family came with a request for exactly the same cake, but I managed to get him to agree to a banana cake instead (and I conveniently had 6 blackening bananas in the pantry). I also carved a whole watermelon into a T-Rex dinosaur head based on a picture from the Watermelon Promotion Board site. Some great ideas that you have to make use of over summer while watermelons are in season. Messy though the watermelon carving exercise was, the delight on his face made it worthwhile.
Yoghurt Icing
1. Strain greek yoghurt overnight
2. Add a splash of lemon juice, a few drops of vanilla extract and enough icing sugar to sweeten to your liking
3. Mix and pour over top of cake, allowing it to drip down sides enticingly
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:00 pm
Dropping by to say hi.
The cakes look great, and I love the apple cars and watermelon dinosaur!