Since Noah's birthday is coming up, I have been thinking about all things birthday lately, including cakes. As many of you know, I often put the most effort into the cake - more than the party, the decor, the hairdo of the birthday child, etc. It varies from birthday to birthday and I have even done a couple of store-bought cakes the past few years (the horror!) but I do usually make them myself and I am usually proud of them.
I just went through pictures of all of the birthday cakes I've done and I've found that there are 16 cakes that I liked enough to display here, so for lack of anything more exciting to post about, I'm giving you my cakes - broken into four blog posts.
So with that rambling preamble, here is part 1.
My first big fancy cake; Noah's 2nd birthday in 2002. It was so much fun but I think I was up until about 3am the night before finishing it. He was really into trains at the time.
Molly's 1st birthday, 2003. I thought that dying coconut green to look like fake grass was SO fancy. The flowers were pre-done in royal icing but you can't really tell.
Noah's 3rd birthday, 2003 - he was so funny and requested this one very specifically. When I asked him what kind of cake he wanted, he said he wanted chocolate with blue circles all over it, with a big yellow circle. I think it turned out pretty cute!
My first character cake for Molly's 2nd birthday - Dora turned out a little sunburned-looking but oh well! I printed out a picture of her and kind of made a stencil. I couldn't draw that well free-hand. Most memorable part of that day was when Molly didn't understand about blowing out the candles and tried to grab them instead (while lit). Ouch! See, too much attention was given to the cake and not enough to instruct the birthday girl!
Thanks for indulging me in this walk down memory lane so far... stay tuned next time for four cakes made in 2005!
7 comments:
Lets see all 16, I need a list of ideas to borrow from. Man you are good, did you take a class, or are you just this creative.
Cute cakes! Can you do my kids' cakes, too? Actually, I LOVE cake decorating but it usually gets put off until it's too late to do something great and they end up as pretty sorry excuses for birthday cakes. Maybe if I start working on Lauren's now...
I loved this post. You have always been the cake queen, so it's so fun to see them all in one shot! Very fun!
WHOA. You are super Mom. I think the polka dotted cake is my favorite but the train cake looks like a ton of work. Amazing you are.
wow - quite the talented cake decorator! I always want to make cute cakes, but they never quite turn out . . .
i'm totally impressed.
I am very impressed---are the train cakes from a mold? I have the WS mold, but mine didn't turn out that cute.
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