Second round of birthday celebration

The birthday cake for second round

Some great friends came around last Sunday to celebrate my birthday, one month delayed. I bravely enough had invited for afternoon coffee/tea in the garden. And this is brave living in Denmark !!!! However, I had a plan B, which meant drinking the afternoon coffee/tea in-side, which were highly appreciated by my guests, as Sunday was a day full of rain. Even Hannibal the Cat was un-happy with the situation, as he dis-likes a wet fur, so he spend quiet some time sleeping on top of the garden garbage container !!!!!

Hannibal the Cat being un-happy with the rainy weather

My good friends from Horsens had been checking my blog before leaving home in order to see, if I posted the "menu" in advance. But this was not the case this time.

Also some of the birthday guests had expectation about me serving a new version of strawberry cake version 2.0, which this cake was not on the "menu" for this afternoon !!!!

The "menu" was:

• sandwiches with egg salad and cucumber & cream cheese
• saffron scones with whipped cream and fresh strawberries
• muffin with rhubarb and white chocolate
• birthday cake
• cookies with ginger and white chocolate



Birthday cake "on fire"

The birthday cake was made from sponge cake layer being brushed with blackcurrant rum before applying vanilla cake cream and fresh strawberries. I ended up by mixing left-over of the blackcurrant rum with icing sugar. The side of the cake was decorated with whipped dairy cream.
As final touch I added birthday candles. However, these candles did not perform according to my expectations, as they only lasted a very short time combined with dripping searin on the icing.



One part of the birthday gift to me was this cooking book called "Te og kager - Året rundt" by Lilian Nøhr & Mette Odgaard. I am very much looking forward to try all these afternoon tea recipes in my kitchen.

A big thank you to my friends celebrating this day with me. I highly appreciate your great company :-)

Prefect birthday gift for a tea and cake lover as I