Tomorrow, Nick turns 37 and his special request was a cake he remembers dreaming about as a young boy... the Swimming Pool Cake from the Women's Weekly Birthday Cake Book. I did a quick search and found a photo and the recipe at Ruby-Jo.
I was happy to oblige ~ Elly and I had lots of fun making it today. We are stretching the celebrations out over two days so he had his cake tonight (he couldn't resist) and we'll go out for a fun Teppanyaki dinner tomorrow night.
It was so easy to put together... paper umbrellas, green jelly (jello), chocolate sticks, licorice ladder, jelly snakes for rubber rings and little plastic babies. I painted their bathers on with red nail polish!
We couldn't find a single candle, but we had a packet of sparklers that came in handy;
There was, of course, a glittery party hat for the birthday boy;
(Apparently his boss is always telling him he has glitter on his face at work. He has to do a quick 'glitter check' before every meeting!)In the time it took me to get a knife and bowls to serve the cake, the girls had made sure every baby had dived into the jelly and had a 'swim';
This was definitely a fun cake to make and one I would love to make again (And that's not something I usually say, after making a cake!).
A Mum from Preschool gave me a great tip... white buttercream frosting under the jelly, so the 'water' doesn't look murky. And it was so yummy... I never realised jelly and and cake is such a good combination!
Happy Birthday, Nick!
4 comments:
Oh I can't say how happy it makes me feel to see one of those swimming pool cakes. It's a real blast from the past - I had one at some point in my childhood myself, and my parents (who used to make our cakes together) used the Woman's Weekly book too :)
Happy birthday to Nick - you guys sure know how to throw a family celebration!
Hi Margaret! Thanks for the blog mention. The cake looks awesome! It makes me want to make one myself.
Happy Birthday Nick! Hey we were just looking at this cake yesterday in our ww cake book! That is so funny. Well done great cake.
I meant to comment on this last week - we both loved the cake! And thought yours looked a lot less murky than the original, then spotted your tip about the white icing underneath :-)
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