STRAWBERRY SHORT CAKE~mum birthday~

I can't believe i made it^^I bake my very first sponge cake successfully: )that morning i wake up early to go wet market before 7a.m with my mum, we bought some steamboat ingredient as our mooncake festival lunch..this day is on the 11/9 sun we celebrate one day before early is because my brother have school the following day.. 

My mum birthday fall on the 12/9 on the mooncake festival day..so while we buying our ingredient i still thinking whether want to buy baking ingredient to bake a cake for my mum or just buy a cake from a bakery?!?! If i want to bake a cake what cake should i bake that time in my mind is either chill mango cheese cake or strawberry shortcake..in the end i make up my mind after walking one round around the supermaket..haha..i decide to bake STRAWBERRY SHORT CAKE^^so this is how my cake idea came up..

 Ingredients:

SPONGE CAKE:

optima sponge mix(bake king)-250g

egg-4no

water-50ml

FILLING:

fresh strawberry-10no

whipping cream-250g(whipped)

BUTTER CREAM:

strawberry paste-few drop

butter-250g

icing sugar-300g

STEPS:

1.Mix all sponge cake ingredient for 12min.

2.After mix,pour into cake tin and bake in preheat oven for 45min at 180C.

3.After done,cool down and slide into half.

4.Spread a layer of whipped cream on the sliced cake and place a few pieces of sliced strawberry then spread a layer of whipped cream again,place the other cake on it.(chill for 1hr)

5.Mix butter and icing sugar till light and creamy.divide out 3/4 mixture and mix with a few drop of strawberry paste.(for the cake topping).

6.After the cake have chilled,decorate it with step 5 butter cream.

The butter cream after mixing with strawberry paste and portioning...and layering with whipped cream and sliced strawberry..

Next time i want to put more strawberry..^^

Before decorate..haha mixed with some strawberry paste..i getting there left the topping and decoration..

The design of the cake used some dragee..i love using dragee for decorating^^and strawberry...some pink sparkling powder on top of the cream ^.<..the design of this cake only took me less than 5mins to think..simple and sweet^^

My mum was so happy..happy birthday mum ought your birthday is a very simple one but i using all my love heart to bake this cake^^that why it turn out so lovely and nice..haha..the inside of the cake look nice..just a bit more cream and strawberry will do..

Not only my mum was happy but me myself was overjoy too..my family love this cake not that sweet not too much cream mm..good..but i still have to improve..decorating cake is fun too..

last but not least "HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM"& "LOVE YOU MUM"you the best mum..^^