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Junior's 3rd Birthday

Today is Junior's 3rd birthday. We had a small celebration, just the 3 of us at home on Saturday morning because Husband has to shuttle to and fro the hospital for the past few weeks and the coming few weeks too I suppose. It has been a very trying time for him and his family, may Allah ease their hearts, give them strength and patience.

Junior was very excited to make his own birthday cake ever since I showed him that I plan to make a digger cake for his birthday. Just normal chocolate cake, with chocolate frosting and topping it with his diggers and cake crumbs to look like a construction site. Whoever came up with this idea is brilliant! I don't have to frost properly, and he gets to play with the cake first before we cut it.

I meant to go to NTUC during lunch on Friday, but lunch plans changed, and we didn't manage to go to the supermarket that night hence I had no eggs for cake. No eggs!

Luckily there's such thing as dairy free, egg free and butter free cakes thanks to vegans all over the world. Would be an appropriate cake for kids as well, just that my son doesn't eat cakes.

I was low on icing sugar too, only had about 250g of icing sugar and thankfully that was enough for my Milo frosting.

First thing that Junior wanted to do on Saturday morning was to bake! I love having children who love to bake haha. I'll train my little girl to bake as well :) Mama will be so proud :)

Dairy + Egg + Butter Free Chocolate Cake, from allrecipes

3 cups flour (I used cake flour)
2 cups sugar
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup cocoa powder (I used Valrhona).
3/4 cup vegetable oil
2 tbsp vinegar
2 tsp vanilla essence (I didn't include)
2 cups cold water

  1. Prepare 2 8x8 inch pans, grease with butter and line with baking paper. I only have 1 8x8 and 1 9x9, so I used both and cut the excess from the 9x9 inch pan for crumbs.
  2. Sift flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda and sugar together. 
  3. Make 3 wells, 1 for oil, 1 for vinegar, 1 for vanilla.
  4. Pour cold water over all, and mix till combined.
  5. Bake at 170 degrees Celsius for 35 minutes.
The cake was not sweet, but very moist and fluffy! Just perfect! Totally love it! Since I'll be making oh so sinful frosting, this cake base makes me feel less guilty hahahaha.


Those round specks are mini chocolate chips I salvaged before Junior ate them. HAHA.

Milo Frosting

250g butter, softened
250g icing sugar
Milo to taste (haha I didn't measure! About 5 heapful tbsp at least?)
3 tbsp cocoa powder (Valrhona)

  1. Beat butter until fluffy.
  2. Add in icing sugar and beat till mixed.
  3. Add in cocoa powder and Milo until desired taste.
I have phobia with frostings because most of the time it doesn't turn out well, but this one's good! Finger licking good and easy to frost. Junior cannot stop eating the frosting haha. Frosting confidence boosted!


Yummeh Milo frosting! Success!


Junior picked the diggers he wants in his cake, I added in the cones, and we washed them when he was bathing and while the cakes were cooling.


Can't wait to dig the cake. I can't remember how many times I have to tell him to wait! Haha.


The end product! The digger on the right has all wheels coated with frosting omg.


And he still wanted to push it in o_0


Love to see him so happy with his cake :) Worth the effort and back and leg aches.
 

My baby boy enjoying the frosting hahaha. And here's his finger marks everywhere digging for frosting!

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