.: My favourite holiday…aka my birthday!

It’s no secret I love, love, love my birthday. This has little to do with the presents and more to do with the gathering of friends that meet to celebrate. I have one night when all my friends from different areas of my life all come together to meet, mingle and have a great night.

Tamryn (a fellow South African, who is au pairing here in Wisconsin) and I found out we have more in common than just sharing a home country. We live in the same province, our sisters shares the same school and we share a birthday! [cue] double birthday bash planning!

I had seen a picture of a South Africa flag birthday cake and convinced Tamryn that we would be able to pull it off. Well…

Planning the cake

Tamryn came over and we started baking lots and lots of little cupcakes. We even got inventive and made vanilla ones, chocolate ones and swirly mixed ones. After baking enough cupcakes and letting them cool off we had to find a way to create a normal looking rectangle. Considering that some of our cupcakes looked more like the humpback of Notre Dame than little molehills, this was a difficult task.

Working out if we had enough cupcakes

Finally we decided on the layout of the cupcakes, including candle space. We then laid out the icing plan of attack. Half way through icing cupcakes I looked up at Tamryn, she had blue icing on her lips. I was trying to tell her this but I was laughing so hysterically that I was not able to tell her, so she kept asking and I kept laughing. I had images of her with blue at our party (the next day) in my head. Eventually I managed to get it out, she washed it off and the day was saved.