BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR A FRIEND /TORTA DE CUMPLEAÑOS PARA UN AMIGO

Hello, my beautiful people of Hive! I hope you all are doing well and feel strong enough to keep going!

I want to say that I am very happy to publish for the first time in the family & friends community, because today I am going to tell you about a very special experience for me and I share it with much affection.

Two weeks ago, I was invited to a friend's birthday party and obviously I was in charge of making his birthday cake.

In my last post, I made a video where I show you step by step how to make a delicious and moist chocolate sponge cake. Well, that same cake was the one I used for my friend's birthday cake, which I filled with Nutella. The theme of the cake was the Blue Power Ranger, which is one of the super heroes of my dear friend Osmel's childhood and even in his adulthood he still watches the chapters of this unforgettable series that is currently broadcast on streaming channels.

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For the cake decoration I painted on fondant the blue power ranger mask and a medal with a triceratops dinosaur. Then, for the icing I used a white chocolate ganache with edible blue food colouring. I also cut some flat diamond shapes to simulate the ranger's costume. All made with fondant and edible paint.

I think that at first glance you can see that the most complex part of this decoration was to make the mask, not only because of the details of the lines, but also because I had a hard time getting that blue tone which is like an indigo blue.

In this sense, for a cake with this kind of decoration a lot of patience is required because the fondant must have a previous preparation. That is to say, before starting to paint on this material, it must be left to dry for about 24 hours, which is the time it takes to dry if there is not too much humidity in the environment. The whole process took me about 6 days.

On the day of the celebration, my husband and I arrived at the party with the cake. Everything was prepared to be a surprise. I loved the look on my friend's face when he saw the cake because it was as if he had relived his childhood. In fact, he showed me a photo from when he was a child where he was celebrating his 5th birthday with a huge cake in the shape of the blue power ranger.

Photo courtesy of Osmel Arreaza

During the event there was a barbecue or "asado" as they say here in Chile, different snacks were handed out and among them we could not miss our traditional tequeños or cheese fingers, because Venezuelan party without tequeños is not a party. So you know! Hehe!

In addition, there were some fun activities such as the game of the chair and the war of the sexes where we formed two teams, one of women and one of men. The game consisted of popping balloons and, of course, the winner was the one who popped the most balloons. The truth is that I really enjoyed it a lot and I laughed a lot.

But, the most beautiful and meaningful thing was that we were reunited with friends and colleagues that we cherish with all our hearts and that we had not seen and shared for a long time.

After singing the birthday song, we cut the cake and all the guests were delighted, especially the birthday boy.

I am pleased to say that it was an honour to make this cake to celebrate the birthday of my friend Osmel Arreaza, a native of Cumaná, Sucre State Venezuela and who you can find on his instagram account as @osmel.arreaza if you want to come by and congratulate him on his 32nd birthday. Jiji

Before I say goodbye, I want to invite you to watch a very short video that I made with a lot of illusion where I show you from the elaboration and decoration of the cake to the moment when we sang the birthday to my friend Osmel.