Today is my mother’s birthday and marks nearly two years since she was diagnosed with vascular dementia and, she would say, more importantly, two years a widow. I don’t think she wanted one birthday without her husband, let alone two but here we are and there we go with a cake.
I know it looks like a picture but it is a cake, look:
I have enjoyed doing this over the last few days, everything is edible, even the butterflies which are Claire Bowman cake lace butterflies, which you make by spreading icing into a silicone mat, very like the moulds I made for the miniature papier mache pictures. You then bake the icing butterflies and they remain flexible. As I have never done this before or transported such a cake so far, I’m just hoping they won’t arrive smashed. If you want to have a go Cake Lace is available on Amazon, though I saw it first on IdealWorld.TV shopping telly, where you can see Claire demonstrating by putting ‘cake lace’ into the search engine.
Finding the positives this time has been very enjoyable, even if she turns her nose up at it. I hope not but a cantankerous newly 89 year old is an unpredictable item. Currently she is planning to take us out for lunch, which is a kind thought, if nerve wracking, but I said we will do whatever she is able to do when we get there, so I’ll take a packed lunch as well, in case.
At least we know there will be cake.
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