When I was a kid in the 80's, everyone had birthday cakes from the Women's Weekly Birthday Cake book. We would flick through and choose one that we loved and our mums would get to work. Joseph decided he wanted the duck cake and I was going to make it happen, no matter what! He looked through it over and over, but was hell bent on the duck cake.
I baked the vanilla cake I used for Ross's birthday cake here and then cut it to shape and used skewers to hold it as necessary- with a few tips from this handy YouTube video here.
The icing was the scariest part, following the decades old instructions and hoping that it would work out! Thankfully it did and we were good to go!
Just the bow was remaining - and we didn't have any orange ribbon... so guess who cut the handle off a reusable shopping bag and used that for the bow. That's right, this girl hahahah. No complaints at all, it worked perfectly!
I was so, so happy with this cake. Joseph nearly died with excitement and I was so thrilled. 100% worth the effort. 10/10 would do again just for that kind of reaction.
The book is incredible and I know so many people have wonderful memories from it. The most beautiful video that you can watch here, was made with the author 38 years after the book was released and it's so worth the watch. Australian Women's Weekly, you are amazing. Thanks for the memories!
