Here is the latest effort for birthday cake. Birthday boy thought up the concept (triangular, spirals with large m&m's at the centre). If you'd told my 15 year self that I would be competently (I think, anyway) using a sandwich bag to pipe spirals on a birthday cake, I would have laughed hilariously. If I ever get to a school reunion and they ask me what my biggest achievement to date is, this would have to be in the short list. The "architectural" (decorative) triangle on its end at the back was the husbands idea.
Thank you to the Heathcote Jones' without whom I would not know about using sandwich bags for piping :)
Other thanks - to hubby and his mum who made butter cream icing with a wooden spoon and a whisk. It can be done!!
PS - I have to add in a late PS to this. We have since worked out that he meant rectangular when he said triangular. It would sort of explain why one of his comments was that he thought it would be a different shape, which made me feel a bit huffy at the time...The thing is, I think having a triangular cake really freed us from all preconceptions about decoration or form, and it turned out such a great cake. At the end of the day, you need something to put candles in, then it gets chopped up, so shape is more or less a moot point!
I always make butter cream with a wooden spoon !! Cake looks awesome and I may steal T's idea unless he wants to patent it
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