Sunday 25 September 2011

Happy Birthday We Should Cocoa!



Happy birthday We Should Cocoa! The brainchild of Chele and Choclette has turned one!

Luckily for me, We Should Cocoa's birthday has also coincided with mine.  I hit the big 2-5 on Monday.  I went up an age bracket on questionnaires.  This makes me feel old.

So to stuff my sorrows, I made one of my favourite cakes.  It's called the Jackie Oh! Cake from Sugar Baby by Gesine Bullock-Prado.  It's beautifully moist and chocolaty and has become a firm favourite for big cakes.  

Unfortunately, I didnt get a photo of the cake this time I made it.  So here, sneakily, is a picture of the cake I made a couple of months ago using the same recipe.  I baked mine in four 7inch pans, sandwiched together with buttercream.  I smoothed a thin crumb coating of icing around the edge and rolled it in one packet of blitzed Oreos.  Then I piped rosettes around the edge of the cake and carefully sprinkled the leftover blitzed Oreos into the centre.  


Apologies for dodgy photo. (iPhone + late night icing = fail) 

7 comments:

  1. What a perfect perfect showstopper of a birthday cake! Loving the blitzed oreo topping!

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  2. Really impressive cake - great for a birthday. And happy birthday to you. You shouldn't feel old - wait till you get to my age. Funnily enough I think we had a similar cake at Quuen Victoria's Jubilee.

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  3. OOOHHH this looks so good as soon as i replace my cake tins im gonna make this

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  4. Happy birthday! I really want to try the blitzes Oreo coating!

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  5. It looks quite stunning. It's unusual to get such a dark colour so thanks for the oreo tip. Wishing you a rather belated Happy Birthday too and thanks for coming along to our party.

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  6. Lovely looking cake, Happy belated birthday!

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  7. Thanks guys! The Oreos, when all ground up are verging on black, its going to be a nice prop around hallowe'en!

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