Friday, February 4, 2011

Fun With Cakes

A couple of weeks ago I had another cake order - this one much simpler than the last one I made for her. 

 This was originally my Lightning McQueen cake pan, but her son just wanted to have an orange race car, so I did what I could.  His initials (that just happen to be the same as Tristan's), serve as the "license plate", and the car number is how old the birthday boy turned.

I make my chocolate cake from scratch (thanks Joanie!), so I always have leftover batter.  Normally it gets baked and just shaved off the top of the cake pan before I turn the cake over (then I get to munch on it while I'm decorating it - you know, a baker has to test her work!), but this time I let Grace use it for her Easy Bake oven.  I also had extra frosting, so the kids both got to try their hand at decorating their own cakes.
I ended up finishing Tristan's cake for him because he started getting more frosting out the top of the bag than the tip!
 Tristan discovered my bowl of leftover Christmas M&M's and thought they would be perfect to decorate the top.
 Grace did her cake completely by herself!

If the kids get to make their own cakes every time I do, I think I'll have another couple of people who don't mind me making cakes very often!

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