Happy Birthday Ms Yeo

Thursday was the birthday party for my daughter's teacher Ms Yeo. As mentioned in an earlier post, I was "volunteered" to make a cake for the party.

Eventhough I just started work and putting in the hours, a promise is still a promise (not matter how small). And this is how the cake turned out, with Ms Yeo's favourite character - Monokuro Boo prominently in the centre of the cake.

The creation was an orange pound cake with lemon icing. The cake was baked on Tuesday evening and chilled in the fridge and iced on Wednesday. This is because the cake needed to be totally cooled before applying the icing otherwise the icing will melt.

The icing recipe is actually quite straightforward but you do need some judgement in term of consistency that is suitable for your purpose.

Ingredients for lemon icing

• 4 cups shifted icing sugar
• 3 tablespoon home made lemon extract, this is similar to the orange extract except that you replace it with lemon zest
  
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 4 tablespoons butter

Directions for preparing the icing

1. Combine all the liquid together in a bowl
   
2. Whip butter in an electric mixer until creamy
3. Add 1/2 the icing sugar to the creamed butter and mix till combine
4. Add the liquid slowly and alternate with the icing sugar till the right consistency. If the icing is too 'solid', just add some water.
5. Spread icing on the cake (cold or chilled) top first before side. Chill the creation in the fridge till serving time.
   

Another point to note is that the crust of the cake need to be cut/shaved off, otherwise the icing will not be able to stay on the cake.

Voila! Bon Appetit! And Happy Birthday Ms Yeo!