birthday cake!
Nov. 10th, 2019 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrian_turtleToday is Redbird's birthday. Yay, Redbird! (I think we're supposed to write it redbird? I've been out of touch lately.) I made her a birthday cake.
I found a spice cake with roasted apples on Smitten Kitchen that was used as a birthday cake, decorated with a map of the NYC subway done in colored frosting. That seemed promising, because my sweetie is such a transit geek. (And the MBTA is so much simpler than the MTA I thought I had a chance of drawing it on a sheet cake.) It turns out that the local supermarket is happy to sell me little tubes of colored icing in red, blue, or green (or various colors I don't want), but not orange or yellow. They don't even have orange or yellow food coloring.
I'm not sure if decorating the cake with a map of the MBTA and leaving off the Orange Line would make it wrong, or just painfully accurate. Between that uncertainty, and my uncertainty about trying to make a vegan cream cheese or buttercream recipe for the background...I just used the cinnamon glaze I discovered this spring and been putting on everything that seems to call for frosting since then.
Of course, birthday cakes need candles. The pictures at Smitten Kitchen showed a birthday cake for a 3 year old, so candle placement was simpler than for us. But we make do. I sang the Inchworm song before Happy Birthday.
There is not actually a picture inside the cut tag. There is a picture on my phone and I can't figure out how to get it to dreamwidth. It's not that important. 6 blue birthday candles, some of them lit, on a rectangular cake with brown frosting.
redbird? I've been out of touch lately.) I made her a birthday cake.I found a spice cake with roasted apples on Smitten Kitchen that was used as a birthday cake, decorated with a map of the NYC subway done in colored frosting. That seemed promising, because my sweetie is such a transit geek. (And the MBTA is so much simpler than the MTA I thought I had a chance of drawing it on a sheet cake.) It turns out that the local supermarket is happy to sell me little tubes of colored icing in red, blue, or green (or various colors I don't want), but not orange or yellow. They don't even have orange or yellow food coloring.
I'm not sure if decorating the cake with a map of the MBTA and leaving off the Orange Line would make it wrong, or just painfully accurate. Between that uncertainty, and my uncertainty about trying to make a vegan cream cheese or buttercream recipe for the background...I just used the cinnamon glaze I discovered this spring and been putting on everything that seems to call for frosting since then.
Of course, birthday cakes need candles. The pictures at Smitten Kitchen showed a birthday cake for a 3 year old, so candle placement was simpler than for us. But we make do. I sang the Inchworm song before Happy Birthday.
There is not actually a picture inside the cut tag. There is a picture on my phone and I can't figure out how to get it to dreamwidth. It's not that important. 6 blue birthday candles, some of them lit, on a rectangular cake with brown frosting.
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Date: 2019-11-11 12:19 am (UTC)(The way I put photos in DW posts is by using the post-by-email feature. Alternatively, there is an image hosting service here (https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=225&q=image&lang=>FAQ here and a
different FAQ faq explains how to use an image that's already on the web.
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Date: 2019-11-11 02:40 pm (UTC)In my experience, food coloring is usually sold in little bottles of red, green, blue, and yellow liquid, and you can mix the red and yellow to make orange. Of course, it's been years since I last used food coloring, so it's probably not like that anymore...
Speaking of birthdays, I sent you Happy Birthday e-mail back in August, which I hope you got?
To get pictures into Dreamwidth, I upload them to a photo-sharing site like Imgur, then paste the URL that Imgur gives me into my post.
For example: