Let him eat cake
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- August
- 17
OK, I feel a little bad posting this after those inspirational posts by Swapna and Hema, but I’m not going to wallow in mommy guilt!
We recently celebrated JD’s first birthday & what celebration is complete without cake! We were having a small family & friends BBQ so when the local bakery said it wanted $50 for a cake, I thought, no way—i can do it myself. So I pulled a couple boxes of cake mix from the pantry & got to work. I made a sheet layer of chocolate & one of vanilla. After I stacked them, I cut the cake down the center longwise, took 3/4 of one of the sides for the bottom of the “1” and the rest I “glued” to the top with frosting. Then I covered the whole thing in vanilla frosting (I used 6 tubs of frosting total!) added some decorative piping & a candle with JD’s name & voila! (disclaimer: my sister-in-law helped my finish & decorate the cake since I ran out of time.)
Here’s the finished product.
It’s not going to win any awards, but everyone said they liked it. Watching JD’s reaction was great. I put some vanilla cake with frosting on his tray & he loved squishing the frosting first. When he finally put some in his mouth, his eyes lit up. He couldn’t get it in fast enough. And, of course, cake & frosting was everywhere—clothes, hair, face. After he was finished indulging, we headed straight for the tub & a quick bath!
Do you make your child’s birthday cake? Why or why not? What’s the most creative cake you’ve made?
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on Sunday, August 17th, 2008 at 2:40 pm by Tracey Princiotta.
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The cake looks so yummy. No wonder JD loved it:-)
It’s an awesome cake! I, too, make my kids’ cakes. It’s an act of love. The most fun one ever was a teletubby hill that had tinted coconut and little plastic teletubbies coming out. I don’t like all the intense frosting colors on commerical cakes – they stain. A $50 cake? Really? WOW.
I once made my husband a smiley face cake for his birthday. I used thin mint cookies for the eyes & licorice for the mouth (smile). He loved it.
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