once more with feeling

The bestest website in the world (apart from this blog, obviously, and even more obviously I’m totally not exaggerating here) celebrated its ninth year of existence last week: fm5. The birthday was celebrated with a huge and quite excessive party plus musicawesomeness provided by The Helmut Bergers, Pilots. and Cherry Sunkist, an absolutely delicious punsch and a birthday cake filled with 5 million calories – provided by yours truly.

This time, I made two cakes and put them together with just some straws and a plate made of cupboard. Next time, I’m gonna go for five layers!

Happy birthday again, my dear fm5 – stay as awesome and interesting as you are.

This will probably be the only baking-related post you’ll ever get to read on this blog. Because to be honest: I dislike baking and cooking. I suck at it, I can only go by recipes cause I have no understanding about ingredients and their amound, I find it a waste of time to stand in the kitchen for an hour when you then eat it in five minutes. I’m more of the salad & soup & sandwich or take-away kinda girl, and I have the luck to always have had boyfriends who enjoyed cooking way more than I do.
However, I do make exceptions to my non-baking rule, but only for very special occasions. And if I do so, then also the result has to be special – for example, there was a heart-shaped cake and a ice hockey field cake. Yesterday, my friend from work and I made a guitar cake for the 20(+10)th birthday of a friend. I’m not gonna give you any details on the recipe, because basically we just made a simple biscuit dough, filled it with raspberry cream and decorated it with chocolate icing and marshmallows, soletti and smarties. If you ever want to make a cake like this and think you could use some tips then I’ll of course be happy to help.
So, enough with the words, here’s the cake!