Need help and advise about making a birthday cake for my mum!?!


Question: Need help and advise about making a birthday cake for my mum!?
I'm thinking of making her a 2 tier, double layer sponge cake. I was thinking of lemon sponge with lemon cake filling but also was thinking about icing the whole cake in coloured fondant icing but not sure how it would taste!! Please help! Recipes and ideas would be great. Thanks. Also if any recipes please nothing with mascarpone etc as i'm lactose intolerant. I can handle butter but not much more than that.

Answers:

I find that lemon cake goes down really well, we often make mixed tier wedding cakes, and find that many brides go for a layer in lemon sponge. The whole cake is then iced in white or ivory (fondant) sugarpaste, and it tastes great! You can make a very quick basic buttercream filling - double the amount of icing sugar to butter, and add a tiny amount of lemon flavouring / essence. We also find it helps to add a tiny amount of yellow colour, it just helps with recognising it's not a plain cake. (e.g. like coloured battenberg!)
Hope this helps!

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First, I hate the taste of fondant so whenever I have a cake from fondant, I don't eat the fondant. I LOVE ICING THOUGH.
Second, a sponge cake may NOT stand up to the weight of fondant and could collapse.



Would she like something like this ?...a Strawberry Ambrosia Cake:..

http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/strawbe…

it's very pretty, refreshing and different



check out allrecipes.com

allrecipes.com




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