{"id":11,"date":"2010-05-03T12:53:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T12:53:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-12T17:31:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T17:31:01","slug":"mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justinejng.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had an early Mother&#8217;s Day lunch for my grandmas this weekend so of course I&#8217;d offer to make a cake for the occasion. This was seriously THE most delicious vanilla cake ever. (Just don&#8217;t dare ask how much butter is in it! haha) I made this cake with strawberry filling and topped it with a cream cheese-cool whip frosting. Since my family hates buttercream, I had to find a last minute\u00a0alternative. I was nervous about how the combo would taste since I never made it before, but it was amazing!! This recipe is definitely a keeper! The basketweave and border were made with buttercream icing. My original plan was to also make buttercream roses\u00a0for\u00a0the top of the cake, but due to the random hot (but gorgeous) weather, they kept melting!\u00a0So\u00a0I went along with plan B and\u00a0added a fondant rose as an after-thought, to add a little something to the cake. I learned that it&#8217;s <strong>not<\/strong> easy writing neatly and straight with icing on a cake! Especially when you&#8217;re a perfectionist like me..I vow to never criticize that aspect of &#8220;professional&#8221; cakes anymore! haha<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_118\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_0363-1024x6791.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118 \" title=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_0363-1024x6791-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_0363-1024x6791-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_0363-1024x6791.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">happy mother&#39;s day<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_117\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_0356-1024x6791.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-117 \" title=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_0356-1024x6791-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_0356-1024x6791-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_0356-1024x6791.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Basketweave design<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This cake was made for my best friend&#8217;s (Jess) Aunt Fran and Gram. Chocolate cake filled with HOMEMADE strawberry jam! and topped with chocolate buttercream.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_116\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_03661-1024x6791.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116\" title=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_03661-1024x6791-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_03661-1024x6791-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_03661-1024x6791.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chocolate Strawberry Jam Cake<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_119\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_0369-1024x6791.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-119\" title=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_0369-1024x6791-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_0369-1024x6791-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/justinejng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dsc_0369-1024x6791.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chocolate Strawberry Jam Cake<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had an early Mother&#8217;s Day lunch for my grandmas this weekend so of course I&#8217;d offer to make a cake for the occasion. This was seriously THE most delicious vanilla cake ever. (Just don&#8217;t dare ask how much butter is in it! haha) I made this cake with strawberry filling and topped it with a cream cheese-cool whip frosting. Since my family hates buttercream, I had to find a last minute&nbsp;alternative. I was nervous about how the combo would taste since I never made it before, but it was amazing!! This recipe is definitely a keeper! The basketweave and border were made with buttercream icing. My original plan was to also make buttercream roses&nbsp;for&nbsp;the top of the cake, but due to the random hot (but gorgeous) weather, they kept melting!&nbsp;So&nbsp;I went along with plan B and&nbsp;added a fondant rose as an after-thought, to add a little something to the cake. I learned that it&#8217;s <strong>not<\/strong> easy writing neatly and straight with icing on a cake! Especially when you&#8217;re a perfectionist like me..I vow to never criticize that aspect of &#8220;professional&#8221; cakes anymore! haha   &nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[inline:dsc_0363-1024&#215;6791.jpg=Basket Cake]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[inline:dsc_0356-1024&#215;6791.jpg=Basket&nbsp;Cake]<\/p>\n<p>This cake was made for my best friend&#8217;s (Jess) Aunt Fran and Gram. Chocolate cake filled with HOMEMADE strawberry jam! and topped with chocolate buttercream.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[inline:dsc_03661-1024&#215;6791.jpg=Chocolate Strawberry Jam Cake]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[inline:dsc_0369-1024&#215;6791.jpg=Chocolate Strawberry Jam Cake]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4px0f-b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinejng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinejng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinejng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinejng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinejng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/justinejng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/justinejng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinejng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinejng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinejng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}