My dear friend Janice celebrated her 30th this weekend. I must give her props for her great attitude about turning thirty-maybe it's because she has been so busy, and life has been pretty sweet lately- but this girl was not sweating thirty AT ALL.
Janice had really enjoyed the chocolate icing that I used for my daughters birthday cake. I wanted the cake to look grown-up because it would be served in a nice restaurant (you know, no wait staff singing happy birthday). I wanted it to look delicious. I wanted it to have a little somethun'.....that I couldn't quite put my finger on.....
So I kept it simple and delicious, with a batch of dark chocolate buttercream whipped extra to keep it a little lighter than the original. I iced the cake smooth all over and combed the edges. Then I was ready to write my message on the top: "30 & Fabulous"....except I couldn't decide what color to make the writing. Darker brown? Black? White? Then it came to me: gold. Shimmering gold. That was definitely the somethun' I was looking for. I cut the message out of white fondant and painted the gold shimmer onto each piece. I had 1" cutters for the letters, but had to create my own freehand design for the "30 &"
Since I was so excited about this cake and the busy day surrounding it's presentation, I completely forgot to take a decent picture of it. Seriously. All I have are some mobile phone snapshots taken that night at dinner.
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