Ewans 14th Birthday

It was Ewans 14th Birthday, as it was in lock down it meant ordering presents from amazon and not being able to get out and get all the bits I usually do for the kids birthdays. Luckily I had a banner hidden away from Alex's birthday and found some balloons. I know he is 14, but with no party and no friends round I wanted to celebrate it as close as possible to how we usually do. He got a new xbox game as one of his presents and spent the day online with friends playing xbox, so I suppose that was sort of a party for him!

One of the hardest things to get hold of was self raising flour so I could make a wonderful cake for him, he requested a chocolate cake so I settled on a chocolate ganache topping, with black cherry jam in the middle and a selection of chocolates and bars on the top. I finally got the flour and baked the cakes, but I used milk instead of dark chocolate for the topping and it didn't set, i put it on the cake and it just ran off, Fred helpfully suggested using the edible eyes I had recently bought, to make it a poop emoji cake! Didn't bother with that! But we had the roast dinner Ewan had requested and put the candles in a potato, as the cake was far to runny for candles, Ewan thought that was very funny! And dispite the look of the cake, it was delicious and he loved it! So it worked out in the end 😀