Friday, December 24, 2010

My Baby Turns Two!! - Celebrating with his favourite Winnie the Pooh Cake


Two years ago, at this time, I became a mother. My son, a tiny 5 pounder filled my life with happiness I cannot explain in mere words.
On his second birthday, but obviously, I baked him a cake with one of his favourite characters adorning it. Barney, Mickey Mouse, Thomas the train and Caillou were the other contenders. If I could, I would put them all on the cake. But Winnie the Pooh won the battle and here he is, smiling on my son's b'day cake!





I will update this post with more details. For now, let me plant another kiss on my precious li'l darling.

Happy B'day Vineet!


UPDATE :
As crazy as this may seem, I carried two huge boxes of Wilton buttercream icing ( 4.5 lbs each) with me to India! I never made buttercream icing in India before and I did not want to take ANY chance, definitely not for my  son's birthday cake, specially when we had a party lined up. I also took with me a tube of piping gel, red colour and black colour icing. Apparently Wilton sells Pooh icing colour set but I came to know of this too late and decided to mix some colours for the Pooh gold.

I made two 10"X11" chocolate cake, layered and iced them using buttercream icing.
For the pooh gold I mixed white icing with yellow, orange and a little bit of brown to get the desired colour.
I went about with decorating this cake just like I decorated the Santa Claus cake. I printed an image off the net and traced it on a parchment paper with a piping gel. I then inverted the paper on the iced cake and with the back of a paintbrush  gently pressed the design on the cake. I then carefully removed the paper. (If piping gel is not available you could trace the image directly on the cake with a toothpick. I haven't tried this method yet but I guess it should work.)



You will, obviously, get an inverted image on the cake. I used wiltons tips to pipe out the designs - Star tip 16 for Winnie and the flowers and a combination of star tips 18 and 21 for the shell border; round tips 3 and 5 for the rest of the details like Winnie's eyes, eyebrows etc. and tip12 for the balloons.

Comments:


27 comments:

  1. HAPPY B'DAY VINEET :)and thumbs up for ur deco Apy !!lovely Pooh !
    Vineet is 2 already? time really flies!!just feels like ystdy when all reacted to his arrival ws 'aiyaiyyo vaive' instead of wow great news !! hahahahaha LOL ( for he came a few weeks pre-mature !!)do upload more pics .

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  2. Hey,

    Happy b'day to your little one!!God Bless him!!Cake looks awesome..Love the icing ...:)

    Dr.Sameena@

    http://www.myeasytocookrecipes.blogspot.com/

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  3. Lovely Cake nd very neat
    Wishing ur lil one Happy birthday

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  4. Happy Birthday to your baby! The cake is lovely!

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  5. Happy B'day to ur bundle of joy! wishing him the very best always !! BTW- i showed this cake to my daughter and she has gone bonkers over it, so looking forward to ur updates.... wishing u n family a fun filled festive season and a great year ahead !!

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  6. Dear Aparna
    Happy birthday and many Happy returns of the day to your little Teddy !!!
    God will bless him and forever
    Merry Christmas and happy New year

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  7. wow...wat a fantastic cake to celeb the joyous occasion..
    Wishing you n your family a very HAPPY CHRISTMAS..:)
    Tasty appetite

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  8. Happy Birthday Vineet :)
    lovely cake Aps :)

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  9. Happy Birthday Vineet. Wishing him that God will give all the happiness in the world. Lovely cake.

    Wish you and family a Merry Christmas and happy holidays

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  10. Happy birthday to your little one
    cake looks fabulous enjoy

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  11. happy b'day mayGod bless the child wit all the happiness of world.cake is looking yummy anddecoration is superb.

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  12. Happy b'day to your son, beautiful treat

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  13. Happy Birthday to your little one! beautiful cake.

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  14. happy b'day to ur baby dear.... thought you would have posted your baby's photo... and waiting for the cake's recipe...

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  15. U have been tagged..Do check out my blog for details.. ;)

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  16. Happy Birthday to your dear baby. Cake looks awesome. Enjoy the day dear.


    Deepa
    Hamaree Rasoi

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  17. cake looks delicious and love the decoration

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  18. HI
    Wishing him a very happy birthday. May God bless him with all the good things in this year..

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  19. Happy Birthday to ur son. He's lucky to have a dear mom like u to bake such a wonderful cake. The cake looks gorgeous. :)

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  20. My hearty birthday wishes to ur baby darling Aparna, beautiful cake dear..

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  21. happy b'day to ur baby the cake looks darn cute! :)

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  22. Happy birthday to the pooh lover birthday boy. Great job done on the cake dear. Love it.

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  23. hey aparna..belated happy birthday to ur sweety pie..the cake looks yum !! theres an award waiting for u in my space,pls do collect it as and when time permits..thnx in advance :))

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  24. Im sure it will form part of precious memories for you and Vineet. So bright and fitting for a bubba.

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  25. Lovely cake, late here, belated wishes to your son. Good to be here.

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  26. Belated returns to your son - The cake looks awesome!!

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