Birthdays should always be celebrated with cake and loved-ones.
Frankie recently turned nine, which in of itself is hard to believe. We celebrated her birthday a few days early, on Thanksgiving, because family would be with us. Along with all the other wonderful Thanksgiving foods, including the world's most awesome stuffing (I know at least a dozen people who would agree with me), traditional pies and cookies, there had to be a cake. Which I started at 10pm, as Emily knows this is not the most common cake-baking time. Frankie has recently decided she is fascinated by sharks and wants to be a marine biologist for sharks. I always try to make sure that the cakes I make are special for the birthday celebrant. My husband gets a homemade cake- dark chocolate with a homemade dark chocolate frosting. The cake is so dark it is black! This year, Luci had candle-cars driving on a rough black road of sprinkles by rolling green hills of sugary delightfulness. The rule, at least the rule I made up for the family,is on birthdays is that you can eat cake all day long, so ideally it is ready when you first wake up. With all the Thanksgiving hustle and bustle, Frankie was not going to wake up able to eat her cake. But, it's a rule, so on the actual day of her birthday, she woke up to yummy yellow cupcakes with swirls of homemade chocolate frosting, which I also baked late at night; hmm, I may have to change my mind and say that baking cakes late at night is actually quite normal, at least in my abnormal world! I was determined that her cake would be spectacular, especially since she was going to have to wait until after dinner to indulge. I spent time debating with myself as to how to go about making a shark cake. Should it be shark shaped? Shark-scary or shark-cute? Well, I decided to go with a regularly shaped, shark-cute decorated cake. It was a hit! It turned out swimmingly well! She had an early celebration with family and cake- just as it should be. And of course, we celebrated again, on the actual day, with our own little family and more cake.
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Fionna
12/8/2012 01:49:38 am
You are so good at cake decorating! I tried to make brownies once and I put in some expensive oil that's basil flavored instead of regular oil. Needless to say, I don't cook!
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Emily
12/9/2012 04:53:46 am
That is an awesome cake! and your daughter is brave, I've been terrified of sharks since i was little!
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Marisa
12/9/2012 11:08:20 am
Really cute cake! I love making cakes for other people because all they see is the finished product, when I make my own I know all of the hard work that went into it and its hard to destroy. I still have some of my fondont shapes from my Hatty Potter cake!
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Frankie
2/7/2013 08:55:14 pm
mom you make the best cake s love you
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