First birthday party
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Story about one little cake
I wanted Donatella's mom to make a cake for her first birthday, to remember every daisy I cut and painted by hand. Even the unexpected situation when the key ingredient for making daisies was missing the day before the birthday, which was not enough, was not lacking in improvisation during the cake-making process. That's how I went from thinking "I'll just buy fondant" to a situation where I almost gave up on making the cake, but in the end everything turned out better than expected. It's no coincidence that we ordered cookies decorated with a daisy motif from a pastry shop. When my husband went to get the cookies, I asked the kind owner on my cellphone if she had some of the white fondant that I was missing. I could even "see" a smile on my cellphone that could only mean one thing: they had white fondant!
How to make daisy flowers from fondant ?
The process of making daisy flowers is very simple. Sprinkle the white fondant with a little powdered sugar so that it does not stick to the surface and roll it out with a rolling pin to a thickness of about 1cm. Then, using various sized daisy flower cutters*, cut out the rolled out fondant. Arrange the cut flowers on the surface and draw a pistil in the middle of each one with edible yellow paint.
*The flower cutters were purchased on the Temu website
Making biscuits for a cake
I love spending time in the kitchen, so Donatella is often with me on the countertop, while we prepare meals together. While I was making the sponge cake for her cake, she, as usual, sat next to me, holding a spatula in her hand. Let's start making the padišpanj!
Padišpanj, my favorite cake, and actually an ordinary old-fashioned sponge cake, served as the base for the cake. This simple and easy cake made of flour, eggs and sugar, comes from the Spanish pan di spagna, which translates to Spanish bread, and was served as a wedding cake in the past. The traditional Dalmatian cake, which many associate with the cuisine of their mothers and grandmothers, and which was once an indispensable dessert on the holiday table, has now also enriched Donatella's birthday table.
Recipe for sponge cake
Ingredients
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15 dkg sugar
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3 eggs
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12 dkg plain flour
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3 lemons for lemon zest
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1 dcl rum
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pinch of salt
Preparation
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Preheat the oven to 150 degrees.
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Beat the whole eggs and sugar and mix for about 15 minutes until the sugar dissolves, or when you feel the sugar granules under your fingers, you will know that the sugar has completely dissolved. Add a pinch of salt, rum and grated lemon zest to the mixture and mix everything well.
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Slowly add the sifted flour to the mixture, mixing by hand with a spatula. When you have mixed all the flour, pour the mixture into a greased and floured mold and put it in the oven.
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After about 15 minutes, increase the oven temperature to 170 degrees and continue baking at that temperature for 30 minutes.
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Check with a toothpick to see if the cake is cooked by inserting it into the center of the cake. If the toothpick comes out dry, it is cooked.
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Remove the cake from the pan and leave it on a wire rack to cool.
Making the cake
To make a small, tall cake from a 26 cm round cake tin, I cut out 3 smaller circles of the same size. I stacked them on top of each other, securing each layer with a few toothpicks to make the cake stable. I covered it with whipped mascarpone cheese so that the cut-out fondant flowers would stick better. I improvised and hoped for the best, that it would last until tomorrow's party and the blowing out of the candles. Stacking daisies of different sizes, in no particular order, I filled every void in the cake, using a sushi stick to secure each flower. I would lightly pierce the place where the pistil was, thus adding three-dimensionality to each flower, because the petals of the larger flowers would protrude slightly. They flowed down the cake, carelessly and like a waterfall of daisies.
Watching Donatella remove the daisies from the cake with her hands meant more to me than I could have imagined, because creating something so "small" for such a big day creates special memories.
Story about one tiny party
In my search for themed party decorations, I couldn't find anything exactly like I had imagined, so what else could I do but make them myself!
We wanted Donatella to join us in creating a "meadow" in the apartment.
The procurement of all the necessary elements for making the caps, garlands, flags, balloons, and cake began a few months before the birthday.
*I ordered all the props for making them through the Temu app.
While Donatella flipped through the pages of her story, the rest of the team was busy making decorations for the upcoming party. With the radio playing in the background, we sang, decorated hats, glued daisies to jute flags, made flowers from paper rolls, and blew up balloons, all while wearing daisies-shaped sunglasses!
Is there a better introduction to the party of the year?!
