Today, the 21st September, my great-granddaughter Janna is a year old!!! Our fondest love and very best wishes to the birthday girl and our congratulations to her doting parents and grandparents. May she be as happy, lovely and loved, as she is now, for the rest of her life.
This is a suggestion for a birthday party for a one-year-old! Naturally, food must be kept as simple as possible. Finger food (“small eats”, as we used to call them many years ago) is, perhaps, the best choice for both toddlers and grown-ups. Small sandwiches, a few cupcakes, a birthday cake and fruit juice and milk are all you need.
BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR A ONE-YEAR-OLD GIRL
This is a light cake with pink and white icing.
210 g (7 oz) butter, at room temperature
210 g (7 oz) sugar
Vanilla
4 eggs, separated, whites whipped stiff, with
1 pinch salt
210 g (7 oz) self-raising flour mixed with
1 heaped tsp baking powder
Icing
90 g (3 oz) butter, softened
360 g (12 oz) icing sugar
3-5 tbsp milk
1-2 drops pink food colouring
Cream the butter then add the sugar and salt and beat until light and fluffy. Add the egg yolks, one at a time, and the vanilla. Sift in the flour and baking powder mixture and mix well. Finally fold in the whipped egg whites until no streaks are visible.
Place in a cake tin, lined with baking parchment, and bake in an oven preheated to 180 C (350 F) for about 35 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
Remove the cake from the tin and leave it to cool.
For the icing, slowly combine the butter with the icing sugar, then add the milk mix until the icing is spreadable. Remove half the icing, add the food colouring and mix until thoroughly combined.
Spread the cake with the white icing and decorate with a piping bag with the pink icing. Let it harden and happy birthday to your baby girl!!
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