My initial plan for his birthday cake was a white chocolate cake with basil frosting. He loves white chocolate. But every time I have tried to bake something with white chocolate, I’ve ruined it. If you have a foolproof white chocolate cake recipe, please do share the link/recipe with me. So, after two flop white chocolate cakes (it sank in the middle), I decided to go back to good old lemon cake. Thankfully, that came out well, even if a little dry.
At first, I was not too sure if I should blog about the cake. But then, we all enjoyed the flavors and it was fun, especially watching our boy. He just couldn’t wait for me to finish frosting, kept saying “Mumma happy to you .. happy to you”. However, he didn’t care to wish his Dad. In his world, it’s just candle, fire and cake that relates to “happy to you”. He even calls the fireplace “happy to you”. I don’t want him to grow! His favorite part of the entire breakfast-birthday-celebration was to light the candles and blow it off. We did that back to back until there were no candles left. After all that excitement, I was wondering if he would even take a bite. Thankfully, he did! A big slice and that made us the happiest. Worth all the effort! Something tells me that from now on, we will have to store birthday candles. Chances are, Avyan will ask for it every time I bake a cake.
The basil frosting is from Molly Yeh’s blog and I learnt about the candied basil leaf from one of Rachel Khoo’s show.
