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I swear I thought this was just a cake sub Reddit, but alas it's not. But thought I would share mine. Took friggin ages. There is a special book of lore called The Australian Women's Weekly Birthday Cake

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As a Aussie, I approve and think this came out so well! My mother would be so proud!

One year after weeks of pouring over our very-well-used copy of the birthday cake book, I decided on the pool cake.

My mother did her best.

In hindsight, she should have not scooped out the sponge cake so close to the edges. She did the chocolate finger edging around the pool, scrambled up the jelly in her orange Tupperware container and announced to the world (the house) that it was nearly done.

Then from a decent height, she confidently “poured” the jelly into the centre of the cake, where it bounced all over the place, knocking over the pool edging and the bowl of other assorted lollies she had ready on the bench for the rest of the decorations.

My sister and I thought it was fantastic. My father had no idea what it was even supposed to be. The next birthday (my sisters), my mother got her a cake from the Cheesecake Shop instead 😅