I was asked to make a cake for the celebration at a Naming Ceremony for Lyra. Her Mum had a few simple requests, that it was a simple sponge, would feed 55 people and was PINK.
My sponge recipe is great for small cakes but not really for big cakes as it would have meant I needed to cook 6 cakes to get the 2 tiers (each tier was 3 layers) so I tried a new recipe that looked great and would work for an 11" square tin. It was a buttermilk sponge from a Debbie Brown cake book and it was fantastic, a lovely moist butter sponge. Each cake was large enough to be able to be cut in half so I only needed 3 cakes and I turned them into 10" and 8" round cakes after they were cooked.... which saved on buying the specific sized cake tins and lots meant of yummy trimmings to eat.
I filled them with jam and vanilla buttercream then iced them in vanilla sugarpaste. The cakes were decorated in PINK, the bottom one in bright pink and the top in a marshmellow pink.
We decided on pink blossoms and butterflies and I added the white and yellow daisies for some contrast as it was looking almost too pink.
It was a really fun cake to make, and I'm sure there will be plenty of occasions for pink cakes coming up. Eloise is teething and a bit miserable at the moment and her Dad was away skiing in France so I had to do the icing with her in the frontpack, an interesting cake making challenge but it did keep her quiet as she was busy watching me and we got there in the end.
Hope the naming ceremony went well Lyra.
