Happy 80th Birthday Phil!

Yay its Friday, which means it’s nearly the weekend!

This week I was asked to make an 80th Birthday Cake for my friend’s grandad. This cake is stem ginger, which has been iced with vanilla butter icing and then decorated using ginger biscuits, a caramel 80 and caramel swirls which I placed on top. I used white chocolate to pipe on ‘Happy 80th Birthday’ and finished the cake by sprinkling it with ginger biscuit crumbs.

I’ve never made a stem ginger cake before so this was a whole new experience! I also chose to make caramel for the first time as I thought this would work well on top of the cake for the decorations. I had a trail run making the caramel first to see how it would turn out and then decided to go for it! Surprisingly it worked well and I was able to make the 80 to place on top of the cake. Hopefully this cake will go down a treat over the weekend during the birthday celebrations!

Have a good weekend! x