This week has been a good week for family interactions. On Tuesday it was my eldest sister's 30th birthday, yesterday was my Nan on my dad's sides birthday, and tomorrow is my younger sister's birthday. This means that this weekend I get to see my elder two sisters, their respective partners and my two nephews.
It also made a great excuse to bake an insanely awesome cake for my younger sisters birthday, because she's chucking a sad about nobody getting her presents, when in reality, she doesn't want anything, so this was the best I could come up with. Of course, I pissed mum off by wanting to make something a little different, something that I haven't before, nor has she, infact she hasn't even heard of it.
The choice was a red velvet cake. The cake itself has turned out good as I baked it today. However, I still have to take the top off one of the cakes as it is a layered cake, then I have to make the icing, which is one of my biggest struggles, and decorate it. This is where it might just fall to pieces since I decided to stick with white icing, add random zoo animal sugar decorations around the side, and then spell out 'Happy Birthday Jacqui' on the top in those shiny sugar balls.
Now, while I am quite a competent artist, cake art was never my strong point. To start with, sticking things onto icing is impossible, and I hate getting food on my hands, so I'm not going to love this. Then, while my English is perfect, attempting to spell something correctly on a cake before the sister wakes up might actually kill me.
The only real good thing to come from tomorrow might be that she is grateful for the effort that went into that damn cake, especially since I am not functional in the morning at all, much less attempting to decorate anything. Also, while everyone has told her they haven't got her anything, I know that my elder sister and Mum have both gotten her things that she will be stoked with and not expect. So hopefully the day turns out alright.
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