A Birthday and a cake !!

It was my birthday yesterday...and I decided to make the birthday cake myself...and after incredible amount of net surfing (mainly blog surfing) ...I finally decided what I wanted for my birthday --a chocolate ganache cake.I have made cakes some 2-3 times earlier but every time I made those in exceptional hurry and when I make it(in 1 hr) and in half hour it is cut also ...But this time I wanted to make it more properly ..so decided to start a little early.More than ingredients what was very important was that Akshaj should not be in the house (and I could do without P too).So P, Akki and his dadu were ordered out of the house and I have next 2-2.5 hours for my cake. And this is how cake finally turned out ...


After baking the cake I made home made marzipan (for animals) and piping gel for writing on the cake.I could only find 3 food colors in Bangalore and so I made bear/cat/bird/duck and some grass with them.P was already smuggling my marzipan paste behind my back and shamefully telling me how good it tastes.(I told u I wanted him to be not in the house)

Like father like son,Akshaj was also busy licking away the cake with his figure(right bottom)while we were clicking traditional birthday snaps ..


Everybody loved the cake ..but was was best of it all that Akshaj was actually kissing instead of eating the bird/duck/bear/cat I made...

Just a perfect birthday gift !!

P.S The writing on the cake was done by P as he thought it does not feel right if I write my happy Birthday myself :-) (thank god for him..I would have messed up the writing completely)