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Happy birthday to Kerrycooks!

March 8, 2012 By Kerry Cooks 17 Comments

Hurrah! It’s been one whole YEAR since I started this blog! On a rainy Saturday in March last year, I bought a shiny new laptop and realised I should probably do something with it! Here’s how the internal monologue went –

“I could start a blog? No way, everyone will think its stupid and that I just want to talk about myself all the time! Let’s do it anyway! Plus they’ll be cake! Wheeee!”

I’m very pleased to say that one whole year, 376 posts, and over 1200 comments later, I’m still having an awesome time writing my little blog. I couldn’t have imagined all the great people I would meet from across the blogosphere.

So to say thank you, I baked you this pink lemonade cake. Its fizzy, pretty and delicious. If I could, I would mail you each a piece.

Pink lemonade cake –

For the cake – this is adapted from this Delia recipe. I knew I wanted a really moist cake so it had to be Delia!

  • 175g unsalted butter
  • 175g caster sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 175g plain flour
  • 2tsp baking powder
  • zest and juice of one lemon

For the frosting –

  • 250g icing sugar, sifted
  • 80g unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 25ml whole milk
  • 30g lemon sherbert powder (I bought a packet from my local Wilko’s for 30p)

First, preheat the oven to 170 degrees/gas mark 3 and cream the butter and sugar

Beat in the eggs, lemon juice and zest. Close up of zest for you!

Add the flour (sifting it into the bowl) and mix. If there are any lumps in your mix, use an electric mixer to get them out, but don’t overbeat, just until everythings incorporated. Pop into greased cake tins and bake for 20-30 minutes.

To make the frosting, combine your butter and sugar and mix with an electric whisk or mixer. When the butter is incorporated and the mixture resembles breadcrumbs, add the milk and continue whisking.

How to deal with a cake disaster – my cake got totally stuck to the pan (I think because my cake pans are old and crappy). Even if this happens (as it also did with my citrus bundt cake!)don’t panic. Just turn out what you can of the cake onto your serving plate and then piece it back together as best you can. And remember – you can hide anything with frosting!

Ta-dah! Pieced together, just a little dip in the centre!

Phew – frosting hides all flaws!

I put a massive crumb coat on this cake – it was so moist and crumbly (and just baked) that it just wanted to fall to pieces. Luckily it held together!

Wacka wacka wacka….

Happy birthday blog!

x Kerry

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  1. Liz Wan says

    May 3, 2013 at 3:22 pm

    Sherbert powder in frosting?! What a fizzy-awesome idea. Must try. Will let you know when I’ve done it. πŸ™‚

    Reply
  2. Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella says

    March 9, 2012 at 10:28 pm

    Harry Birthday lovely KerryCooks and may there be many more to come! πŸ˜€

    Reply
    • kerrycooks says

      March 11, 2012 at 4:34 pm

      Thanks Lorraine! You’re so kind :-)-

      Reply
  3. Lucy says

    March 9, 2012 at 7:38 am

    Happy Birthday to youuuuuu! πŸ™‚

    And the cake looks super cute! πŸ™‚

    Reply
  4. the domestic fringe says

    March 9, 2012 at 1:09 am

    Happy Birthday! To your blog I mean. πŸ™‚

    Your cake looks delicious. I actually like making cakes. It may be the only thing I enjoy doing in the kitchen.
    ~FringeGirl

    Reply
    • kerrycooks says

      March 9, 2012 at 10:11 pm

      Thanks my dear!! Yep it sure beats cleaning huh! although you have to clean after you make the cake…go figure

      Reply
  5. Jacqueline says

    March 8, 2012 at 11:49 pm

    It looks marvellous. Happy Blog Birthday to KerryCooks xx

    Reply
  6. Nat says

    March 8, 2012 at 8:36 pm

    Happy birthday to the blog! That cake looks amazing!

    Reply
    • kerrycooks says

      March 8, 2012 at 9:24 pm

      Thanks Nat!!

      Reply
  7. cutestcakeseveryday says

    March 8, 2012 at 7:05 pm

    Happy Birthday, that pink looks fantastic and I’m sure it tasted fantastic too!!

    Reply
  8. jimmie chew says

    March 8, 2012 at 6:08 pm

    Happy b day!

    Reply
  9. Emmyw @ Kitchen Goddess (in training!) says

    March 8, 2012 at 12:37 pm

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY πŸ˜€

    Reply
  10. Sue says

    March 8, 2012 at 10:37 am

    Well done my little chickadee, what a fantastic acheivement! A miriad of kisses to you, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    Reply
  11. Kate says

    March 8, 2012 at 10:24 am

    happy bloggy birthday πŸ™‚

    Reply
  12. Liana says

    March 8, 2012 at 10:13 am

    Happy Birthday my lovely! What a fab cake!!

    Reply
  13. Emma says

    March 8, 2012 at 9:06 am

    Happy Birthday Kerry Cooks. I’ve really enjoyed your posts over the last year. Here’s to many more… Congratulations. x

    Reply

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