Bollywood Birthday Party

This past weekend Alan and I were invited to a big surprise 40th birthday party for a woman I've gotten to know through my book club. Her friends threw the party for her and asked me to make a "Bollywood Theme" cake for her since she loves Indian food and they were creating an Indian vibe for the party. So the text message to me requesting the cake said "hot pink frosting with sugar orange marigolds". So after some laboring with sugar paste and pink food coloring I was able to create both marigolds and hot pink icing.




The party was great fun! One of the best nights we've had since coming to Ghana. All of the birthday girl's friends made homemade Indian food, decorated the place with paper marigolds, incense and flower petals. We met some new expats from all over the world and Alan got to meet some of the people I've gotten to know through different social gatherings. The highlight of the party is when an African dance teacher arrived to teach us some African dance moves. A few of the ladies have started taking dance lessons with him at their apartment compound and so they demonstrated what they've been working on. We had some good laughs as they performed and I got talked into joining the lessons every Thursday.




Then we all joined in as he showed us some steps. It was really hard and we all looked pretty silly I think, but Alan captured my attempt at the moves.



The cake went over well which I was happy with. I'm trying to get a little cake business going here called Africake and so it was good to have so many people see and taste one of my cakes.