Birthday cake

Exactly nas in the title: my culinary torture with birthday cake :)
I - no artistic talent - made my own decorations... So effect is interesting.
Cake is for my sister (so Happy Birthday, Julia!)

Birthday cake recipe :)

Ingredients

• sponge cake (I bought mine, because it's my sister who usually makes birthday cakes)
• currant jam (or another dark)
• manna-croup
• milk (I used six cups)
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 180-200g butter
• decorations (I used canned peaches and chocolate - one milk and one dark)
• you can also soak the cake (I used cherry liqueur)

How to make it

1.Cream

Butter should be soft! 

Boil milk with sugar. Add manna-croup. It shoud be thick.
Put into cold place (It cools fastest on several plates).
Whip butter and mix with manna-croup, when it's cold.

2. In the meantime

Cut the peaches and... make chotolates.

What?!

Well, I decided to decorate cake with chocolates ;)
Mostly because I hate grapes.

Because they're full of pits.
So I made something-like-chocolates.

I melted chocolate and I made small round chocolates without any filling.
I put them into freezer for they congeal faster. I heard that they'll become matt if you do it, but I guess that's not true. They were perfectly shiny.

3. Layers

I hope your cake has 3 parts too.

First soak cake (using pencil).

 

Then you do (from bottom to the top): cake - jam - cream - cake - jam - cream - cake - cream (on sides too) and decorations.

For my idea look at the picture below ;)

Of course you can just sprinkle  the cake with grated chocolate,
But you have to be careful - because someone can blow it with the candles!

Smacznego!