If there's one occasion we have all marked mentally, its Mother's Day. Even if by some chance, you've completely forgotten, the world itself will remind you. With florists seemingly swimming in overpriced roses to gift shops stocked to the ceiling with gifts for moms and dedication events and tea parties and what not, it's quite impossible to miss it.
I had decided some time in advance about the decoration and type of cake for Mother's Day but as past experiences have taught me, its not too good to be set on one and only one decoration idea as things can turn out pretty different from the grand image that you had in your head...
Mum had been craving for chocolate cake for the longest time and I decided there was no better occasion to satisfy that craving! The cake wasn't much hassle I think - just try to load as much chocolate as possible onto a chocolate sponge cake! Thankfully, everything went well with the cake and it was left in the fridge to set while I agonized over the decoration.
I had an idea in mind to use macarons as part of the decor but as with macarons, you don't really know what you'll get - at least for me! To prep myself beforehand, I had attended a lesson in macaron making and I was a little more confident but it still was a nerve wracking couple of minutes as I stood in my kitchen folding the egg whites into the almond mixture.
The next step was getting all the decorations together and placing them on the cake..which doesn't sound that difficult but for me, after I had everything on, I realised I had focused so much on the macarons that I had completely forgot about the other areas of the cake which now looked pretty bare. Sigh.
Luckily mum came to the rescue and took a look around in the fridge before coming back out with multi-coloured chocolate pearls which made the cake alot more attractive in the end! I didn't want to involve her in the process but oh well!
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