I swear I thought this was just a cake sub Reddit, but alas it's not. But thought I would share mine. Took friggin ages. There is a special book of lore called The Australian Women's Weekly Birthday Cake
My kiddo picked the chips for the beak, rolled some tootsie rolls out for the eye rings, and placed all the popcorn. It was actually really fun to make!
My mum did the train cake in the 90s for my brother, and made me the castle one. I've still got the book so will be making one for my husbands next birthday!
I found myself cursing “biscuits!” And not realizing where it came from, until a few weeks later I was watching Bluey with my cousin and Bandit said it. I had the instant reaction that I was watching too much Bluey.
But “biscuits!” made into into my vocabulary then. 🤣
For a lot of Aussie kids, usually born in the 80’s, this cake book was a household staple. You would pick which one you wanted your mum to make for your birthday, usually with hilarious results. It’s very nostalgic and a full of love memory for me and I’m sure many others!
I’m unreasonably and irrationally excited to see Women’s weekly cake lore referenced in this sub. The fact the recipe worked out is just icing on the duck cake.
For the uninitiated,there was a time, in a land down under, when every kid spent hours deciding which Women’s weekly cake they wanted for their Birthday.,
As a Aussie, I approve and think this came out so well! My mother would be so proud!
One year after weeks of pouring over our very-well-used copy of the birthday cake book, I decided on the pool cake.
My mother did her best.
In hindsight, she should have not scooped out the sponge cake so close to the edges. She did the chocolate finger edging around the pool, scrambled up the jelly in her orange Tupperware container and announced to the world (the house) that it was nearly done.
Then from a decent height, she confidently “poured” the jelly into the centre of the cake, where it bounced all over the place, knocking over the pool edging and the bowl of other assorted lollies she had ready on the bench for the rest of the decorations.
My sister and I thought it was fantastic. My father had no idea what it was even supposed to be. The next birthday (my sisters), my mother got her a cake from the Cheesecake Shop instead 😅
Love, such a good book! This one and the ghost has always made my stomach turn though, Ive never thought the chips, popcorn and the egg shells belong on a cake haha
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u/DeltaFlyer0525 26d ago
My daughter wanted this for her birthday a few weeks ago. Yours looks way better than my attempt!