Let me show you how to create this super fun number 10 birthday cake. It is so easy to make even I can do it! It’s the most delicious way to celebrate double digits!

We came out of our self imposed birthday cake making retirement because our god daughter was turning 10 and a) it’s the last one that we’ll be able to bake for her in a while and b) it’s not every birthday you hit double digits.

We’ve made her a few cakes in the past. For her 5th birthday we made her a Moana cake, her 6th birthday we made her a swimming pool cake, her 7th birthday was the bunny and her 8th was the number 8 (which was an absolute cracker but I still haven’t blogged the how to) and we took a rain check on birthday number 9 because I was overseas.
But we’re back, bigger and better than ever with this double digits deliciousness! Number cakes are my favourite because they’re very forgiving, you don’t need lots of fancy equipment and there’s no question which birthday/year it was when you look back at past party photos!

We adapted this Womens Weekly Recipe and used what equipment we had to hand. I was quite limited this year as I’d already shipped a lot of my baking stuff back to the motherland. All you really need for this cake is a deep round cake tin and a bar cake pan (thanks to Not Quite Nigella for lending me hers) and a DIY template for the zero/peace sign.

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