Gracie the Hen Cake - a Handpainted Easter Cake

        Happy Easter! 

 

         During this time of the year, Christians are excited to celebrate the resurrection of Christ Jesus which is coupled with the long-lived tradition of Easter bunny and eggs. On Easter Sunday morning, children get up to find some presents - chocolate, candies and other stuff left in the house by the Easter Bunny.

 

        So why did I make a hen cake instead of a bunny cake?

        There was a Roman belief that all life comes from eggs and I agree to it; hence eggs are considered by the Christians as 'the seed of life' which symbolises the resurrection of  Jesus Christ - a new life. Likewise I am living a new life in a faraway country, further away from home, away from teaching at the moment, yet closer to the cake world - my childhood dream.

        Sailing  closer to that cake world, I set a goal to make a chicken cake to promote our free- range eggs used in our baking; hence featuring Gracie the Hen, one of the three chicks (Snow White and  Conor the Rooster are the two others) which have survived from hatching in our homemade incubator in August 2013.

Gracie the Hen



Fresh organic eggs 

This breed lays green eggs which have darker golden yellow egg yolks.


Whilst making Gracie the Hen cake, I rushed to the chicken run with a camera to capture the hen in several angles as my basis in making the head and the tail, most importantly in painting the hen cake. I was so slow to start the cake. I was physically in my baking spot, but my head was in my garden - to finish my personal layout garden. However, when my hand started to tickle my brushes, I couldn't stop anymore as the cake seemed to be real! 

Gracie the Hen Cake was a moist milk chocolate cake with milk chocolate marshmallow butter cheese frosting. 




      Easter Sunday last year was a rainy day, yet full of fun for all of us as we hid and searched chocolate eggs everywhere in the house. To make a difference for Grace and Conor's Easter celebration this year, I made two mini moist white chocolate bunny  cakes and egg cakes for them to paint.
 






Creatively and beautifully they painted their cakes with the colour of their choice. 
 



Painting their  mini bunny cakes



Grace's painted mini cakes.

                                           
                                                  




    

Done!

                                                                                         
          It was a happy Easter Sunday indeed!