Today I will be discussing the history of cake. Sort of. I will be sharing pictures of the cakes I have made over the last 6 years.
The first awesome cake I made was a frog. I threw a 6 month birthday party for Johnny. It was an amazing first shaped cake. Regrettably, I cannot find any pictures. I'm sure they are around, I have just misplaced the disk.
The second cake was for Johnny's first birthday. It was a Noah's Ark. I am also missing pictures of this cake, but that's alright. I had the cake all made, complete with a bowl of blue jello under the cake stand, when it started to fall apart. It was a 3D cake and I did not glue the layers together well en
In January of 2009, Larch turned 30. I cranked out these two awesome cakes:
Two thousand nine was the year I discovered Bunco and so threw myself a Bunco Birthday Party. We ate ice cream cake for months. But, if Johnny every wants a Transformers birthday party, I can always make an Allspark cake.
After the Noah's Ark catastrophe, I was a little wary on Johnny's second birthday. I was just not up to creating a cake that looked like Elmo. So, I put Sesame Street cut outs on a sheet cake.
In 2010, for Johnny's 3rd birthday I had my confidence back, and created a 3D racecar.
January 2011 I got to create my first girl cake. I constructed an amazing pink and purple castle. Unfortunatly, I am unable to locate any digital pictures of this cake.
Johnny decided his fourth birthday would be a dinosaur party and that he wanted a cake from the store. His loss.
Last year, for Lily's 2nd birthday I formed this adorable monkey.
Johnny's 5th birthday was all about camo, he got cupcakes with little green army men on top.
This year, after only 24 days, I have built my two best looking cakes yet. For all thier simplicity, you can tell my skill is increasing.
Lily requested a Frosty the Snowman party. With Christmas decor on clearance, this party was really inexpensive to put together. And the cake looked amazing, if I do say so myself.
Here's my January run down: My nephew Emmett was born Jan 8, Lily is the 16th, Larch, my mom, and my dad celebrate their birth on the 18th, my Nana was born on the 19th, and Joe was born on the 22nd. AND Casey Joe joined us this year at 1:22pm on 1/22. Yep, Joe got a baby for his birthday and I now have 8 birthdays to celebrate in two week time span.
With Larch and Joe's birthday's being so close together, and not as big a deal as the kids, we generally throw one event for the two of them. This year we went bowling followed by tacos and cake at my house. Since Larch and Joe are both into military aircraft, I spent three hours planning, cutting, and frosting this masterpiece:
I can't wait to hear what Johnny plans for his 6th Birthday. I am up for almost any challenge he can throw at me.
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Very cool cakes - being a Navy vet myself (and stationed on an aircraft carrier for a time) I'm loving the ship cake! Hmm, wonder if anyone I know can pull this off, I'll be hitting the big 4-0 this year!
ReplyDeleteIf you can think of someone let me know. I still have all the measurements all graphed out if they don't want to take the time to figure it out on their own. after the cutting, it's pretty straightforward and simple.
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