Goal 1: Lose 8kgs by December
Goal 2: Stick to Goal 1
I've been going hard at it at the gym this week. I've gone everyday since Monday so far, which is pretty good by my standards. Had a 'fitness assessment' at our new gym recently, and turns out I have low blood pressure, sigh. It's probably because I only had yogurt for lunch that day (and most days), so I decided I would actually eat a proper meal at lunch now, so I'm resorting to eating more vegetables....not the best but seeing as December is less than 2 months away, should at least try. Oh but I've been cheating, sigh, been eating sweets...ahh i have a big sweet tooth. Plus it doesn't help that theres birthdays coming up next week which means cake!
Speaking of birthdays, I'm attempting to make a topsy turvy cake. Something like below. But mine would be in shades of blue instead because its for a guy. I'm so excited to see how this goes.
Apparently theres a certain kind of cake you need to use, ie. you can't use lighter sponge cakes for the base as they wont have the strength to hold up the rest of the upper layers. Which makes sense. That is why I'm going to make the bottom layer out of red velvet. I'm looking at Oprah's site for the red velvet cake recipe, it looks dense enough for the base...
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| Mmmmm nom nom nom..what gym..:s |
So the problem is..i still haven't decided on the second layer, I was thinking of a lemony kind of cake, but I'm not confident in how contrasting the taste would be between the red velvet and lemon...hmm..to me a rich chocolate cake seems the most obvious solution to the second layer..
But the birthday boy does not like rich chocolate cakes, so what if I make a white chocolate cake? I'll have that as Option 2.
But I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up making a Coconut-Pineapple Cake for the top most layer..looks good doesn't it...
I've never made this cake before, so judging by the recipe I'm assuming it's abit light or less dense than a straight butter cake...let's hope it's a wise decision.
Lol I can think of a few things that could go wrong in this project , 1. the cakes could all fall into each other..yikes leaving us with some kind of hard candy mix..which wouldn't be all that awful. 2. Since I haven't mastered or ever used fondant icing - it could potentially melt..ohh I can think of alot more things that can go wrong, but I think having a can-do attitude will help with this little venture.
oh this Cake Journal has tons of great tutorials on cake decorating, so ill definitely be on this religiously. .
Edit: I ended up making the fondant today, just so I can tick something off. Now I can stop looking at fondant recipes obsessively :P Theres tons of recipes online, so it wasn't that hard.
The birthday is on thursday, so i'll most probably start baking on sunday, just because my time is very limited on work days....
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