My very own Birthday Cake

I'm 1 year older this week - an excuse to practise my skill of making birthday cake and I chose to make a Strawberry Shortcake coz I only had strawberry and fresh cream at home. It was not a fancy cake. However to make a fresh and delicious cake is really not easy.

I also bought a slice of Strawberry Shortcake from Bakerzin to pamper myself. Without trying other great bakers' cakes, you'll never know how to rate yourself. So I spent S$14 on a slice of Strawberry Shortcake and a Dark chocolate mousse cake. I don't usually indulge myself with this kind of pricey dessert - a bowl of red bean soup or sweet potato soup will do just fine.

My verdict... Bakerzin will score 8 out of 10 point* and I fully understand why they can charge a pc of tiny cake @ S$6.5 and my cake will be around 3-4 point :<

1st, my cake looked OK if you're not particular. Steady hand and turning table are required when u make fresh cream cake but I don't have any of those. Knowing my deficiency, I chose not to do a smooth surface for the cake. 2nd, the cake base is rough. I should have used chiffon cake base instead of sponge cake base. 3rd about the cream - I bought those whipping cream which can't be over whipped. It tasted a bit unnatural compared to UHT whipping cream. The cook book called for a 70% whipped cream which became very hard to handle.

Anyway, I'll post some of the photo and let you judge. I'll not give up but will try again!!! Jia Yu!

*This scoring is really subjective. Like I said I don't really try out many baker's creation like those in 5 stars hotel. I may not know what is better out there.

P.S. If your want to have a higher chance of success, Mango mousse cake will be a better choice because the cake mould helps a lot!