As I asked this question this morning, I was aiming for an answer in the vicinity of 'chocolate please'. Thinking that my exceptionally ingenious idea to add smarties to the icing would rate me in his top ten favourite people of all time list. I could see the accolades now...
"A puppy cake!"
Er...right then, let me just take a few seconds to breathe and then work out a way to clear my jam-packed plan for the day. With this, I took off my much loved Personal Assistant hat and quite warily donned my Chef hat. Oh my!
And with that, I put on a load of washing, threw the kids and the puppy in the car, dropped the kids at school, dropped the puppy with the dog walker, collected the dry cleaning, sent a text to postpone the gardener, called the optometrist to confirm appointments and then made my way to the store.
And then, with all the ingredients set before me, I took a deep breath and began.
Once the sponge cakes were baked {and cooled} I was ready to go.
Icing
Then came the hard part...To make little blobs of icing actually look like puppies.
Honestly, this was the good one. You should have seen how the previous seventeen turned out.
The paw prints. Don't worry, I wasn't sure about these either, so I conducted a little survey mid decoration, and thankfully discovered that 7 out of 10 people actually thought that these looked like paw prints {without being prompted}
And then there was one little puppy sitting on a cake.
He looked so sad by himself so I had to make him a little friend.
And there you have it. This is what my day looked like today. Complete with flour in my hair, icing all over my clothes & that sickness you get from eating too many of the failed puppy attempts.
So Happy Birthday, darling Sebastian. Here is your puppy cake x
