DD's Birthday Cake 2010

I'm devoting an entire post to talk about DD's birthday cake because DS helped to design it! The wonderful and ever-patient Chef Lim at The Line, Shangri-La helped bring the design to fruition. Below is DS's drawing of the side view of the cake. The top of the cake will have a picture of Spongebob, which DD chose. DS had originally wanted purple icing lining the bottom part of the side of the cake but Chef Lim says the icing will slide down the cake over time. DS also wanted cookies in the shape of stars placed along the side of the cake but due to the weight of the cookies, this wasn't ideal as the cookies will move downwards too. Instead, Chef Lim lined the side of the cake with star-shaped chocolate, which was thin and light enough to stay put at the side without migrating south. Chef Lim was kind enough to promise that he will incorporate as much of DS's design onto the top of DD's birthday cake.


Ta-dah! The end product. Notice the grey stripe with colorful crosses just below the words "Happy Birthday"? It looks exactly like how DS drew it in his design above. And the row of "stars" above Spongebob's head? There are 7 "stars" in exactly the same shape as how DS drew it. And the colors of the "stars" are in the same order of colors as what DS had in his drawing too! Finally, notice the thick stripe of reddish icing behind Spongebob. It was probably difficult to get the same tone of purple like what DS had in his drawing, but look at the blue lines! DS had them in his drawing too. Needless to say, DS was thrilled to have his design included in DD's birthday cake. We can't thank Chef Lim enough! And the chocolate mousse cake tasted so delicious!!!


Lastly, the side view of the cake showing the chocolate stars! :)