{"id":338,"date":"2020-09-04T07:47:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T07:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2020-09-04T07:47:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T07:47:54","slug":"jungle-1st-birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/09\/04\/jungle-1st-birthday-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Jungle 1st Birthday Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the girls who I used to play Roller Derby with got in touch with me earlier in the summer to ask if I&#8217;d be willing to make her son&#8217;s first birthday cake as she had always loved my cakes (what a nice compliment!). I can be fussy when it comes to making cakes as I don&#8217;t usually like using fondant &#8211; at least not to cover cakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She asked for chocolate cake, with something jungle themed. went for this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/00000PORTRAIT_00000_BURST20200625182410688-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"339\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/00000PORTRAIT_00000_BURST20200625182410688-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=339\" class=\"wp-image-339\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/00000PORTRAIT_00000_BURST20200625182410688-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/00000PORTRAIT_00000_BURST20200625182410688-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/00000PORTRAIT_00000_BURST20200625182410688-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/00000PORTRAIT_00000_BURST20200625182410688-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/00000PORTRAIT_00000_BURST20200625182410688-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Jungle Cake + Cupcakes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The cupcakes were made to have little animal cake toppers on, which were a tad easier than icing a full cake in fondant. I was happy with this one, although I couldn&#8217;t get the buttercream quite perfect. I need to buy a new cake scraper to see if a metal one works better than plastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/00000PORTRAIT_00000_BURST20200625182427061-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/00000PORTRAIT_00000_BURST20200625182427061-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/00000PORTRAIT_00000_BURST20200625182427061-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/00000PORTRAIT_00000_BURST20200625182427061-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/00000PORTRAIT_00000_BURST20200625182427061-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/00000PORTRAIT_00000_BURST20200625182427061-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>a view from the top to show the animals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the girls who I used to play Roller Derby with got in touch with me earlier in the summer to ask if I&#8217;d be willing to make her son&#8217;s first birthday cake as she had always loved my cakes (what a nice compliment!). I can be fussy when it comes to making cakes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/09\/04\/jungle-1st-birthday-cake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jungle 1st Birthday Cake&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,33],"tags":[20,32,5,48,8,99],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthday-cake","category-cake","tag-birthday","tag-birthday-cake","tag-cake","tag-chocolate-cake","tag-home-baking","tag-jungle-cake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}