Fake Posh with Randomness

Meeting 16 - Fake Posh with Randomness

Date: 23rd September 2010
Place: Cake Brigade Member Bradley's Unit Base
Members: Bradley, Faulkner, Polson


For Edkins, the last in our trio of birthdays in September, I'll admit, we struggled to think of a suitable theme that we hadn't done already. We had three meetings to discuss this birthday, and Faulkner and I made all the decisions and planning within an hour in the early hours of the morning of the party, after we had made the cake under a completely different theme. However, the cake was still awesome, as was the party, and serves as a testament to what results when Bradley and Faulkner are left alone to make decisions for their best mate!

At the point of making the cake, the theme we had settled on was one of 'Random Mess', which entailed mixing all our previous themes together, from vegetables and farmyard animals to superheroes and the colour purple. Therefore, the cake itself was a plain sponge, which we mixed in food dye to turn it purple. As we used one large cake tin for the double mix rather than the usual two sandwich tins, it needed much longer in the oven, and so we had to keep checking on it at regular intervals rather than leaving it be. As it cooked, it turned a slightly greenish brown, which made it look more like a giant pork pie than a purple coloured cake.

For the decoration, we centered the design around an icing sheep, surrounding it with jelly bears, jelly tots, jelly snakes, chocolate buttons and marshmallows. We used chocolate butter icing to stick everything down, although the majority of it hadn't set even a week later. To finish the whole thing off, we used curly wurlys to create a tipi around the sheep.


As you can see, the cake did turn out purple, if not a little green around the edges!

As for the rest of the night, we started out all dressed up, Jon having kidnapped the birthday girl for us, and Faulkner and I played waitress as we served hors d'urves in the form of bread and butter, cheese and cucumber, mini quiches and pizzas, and cheese savoury stuffed skips. We then got Chinese and ate it off the best china, while drinking coke, sprite and fanta in wine glasses served from wine bottles. Afterwards, we got into our PJ's, and watched 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging' with face packs on.

For a party that didn't even have a quarter of the planning of the others due to the lack of decisiveness and Edkins' creative input, I think it went pretty darn well.

<3 x