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Since I was a little girl I have always been crazy about cake, especially about making my own. When I was very young, my Mom didn’t always have time to help me bake so sometimes she would just buy a plain sponge cake and let me decorate it. I went wild and nobody wanted to eat the cake after I was done with it.
One I remember in particular had bright, cream soda green icing with concentric circles of coconut, raisins, cherries, nuts, coloured sprinkles, silver balls, you name it. Anything that could go on a cake was on this one. I still struggle to embrace the whole “less is more” design theory.
Blue Daisy Thursday Cake
Sometimes I end up making a cake even when I don’t plan to. This is what happened with my Blue Daisy Thursday cake. I initially wanted to make cookies and after the first batch came out the oven the texture was more like cake. Now I was stuck with five cake circles and no cookies. I put the rest of the mixture into a cake pan and used the round cookies for the top.
Blue wasn’t my first choice for the icing but that was the only food colouring in the cupboard. Flashbacks of the cream soda cake reminded me to go easy on the colouring and I tried to go for a pale tiffany blue which goes well with brown, i.e. the chocolate.I love this cake, it’s a little crazy but still looks good enough to eat.
After eating, decorating a cake is my favourite part. I love having control of how it looks, and adding my personal ideas of that time to the cake. Making cakes on Ulleung island (where I’m currently living) is almost impossible as I don’t have an oven.
Improvised Birthday Cake
Nevertheless I was determined to make a cake for my friend’s birthday so I went on a journey to find mini cakes that I could put together.
Koreans love sweet things so I was lucky enough to find some delicious dark chocolate and orange mini cakes and mini meringue cakes which I stuck together with strawberry jam and topped with almonds and chocolate.
The trick to making all the pieces stay together was to put it into the freezer for about an hour. My friend loved it and it was delicious too so double success.
Even if you think you can’t cook, there is always a way to do it. No time to bake a cake? Buy one and decorate it yourself. It adds a personal touch and makes it even more delicious to eat. Remember, “Anyone can cook!”
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