Thing #47 on my list of 101 Things in 1001 Days: Make a very fancy cake.
One of the nice things about having excellent humans in your life is that sometimes you get to surprise them with fancy cakes, and there’s nothing they can do about it. This is a post about Bene’s birthday cake, which was a phenomenally decadent pistachio and lemon curd layer cake from Natalie Paull’s iconic recipe book Beatrix Bakes.
This isn’t a recipe blog, and I’m not going to make anyone scroll past a lengthy story to get to the point. Instructions are below, I’ve also included some of my own tips which would have made the process much smoother for this infrequent baker. Click ‘read more’ for the recipe.
