A Birthday Cake for a good friend

I am sorry that I have not posted anything on here for a while, I have just been too busy to write any recipes down.

So I thought I would show you the cake I made for a good friend of mine, it was her birthday and I wanted to make something girlie but grown-up at the same time. I decided to make a Devils food cake, I found the recipe on this site www.davidlebovitz.com/2007/08/devils-food-cak/. It was easy to make and the sponge was soft and moist and not too rich. The icing though was very rich but really good, I used some milk and dark chocolate mixed together so it wouldn't be too much.

The only problem with this recipe is that the measurement are in cups for the most part, I am lucky to have a measuring jug that has cups on it. But there are plenty of Devils Food cake recipes out there if you don't have anything to measure it by.

I did have another problem but I think that was me and the heat of the weather, was that the icing separated when it was cooling. I gave it a good mix and drained off the butter that would not mix back though and that seemed to fix it.

For the decorations, I bought the hearts and butterflies from a local cake shop we have, along with the glitter and pre-made sugar paste. To make the roses I followed the directions from this site www.cherrymenlove.com/foodrecipes/2010/02/how-to-make-sugar-paste-roses.html. 

I had looked on several sites for this and found this was the easiest way for me and they looked really good, it took a couple of attempts but they are worth the effort. Next time I may do them two different colours, I think the contrast will look really good.

I hope you like and I promise to write some more recipes out and post them on here

Nylon Angel xxx