Cake Day and Lilly's Birthday

Saturday, what a long day. I had to decorate my nephew Kyle's cake for his 17th birthday and Lilly's barbie cake. I was excited to do these cakes and to see what the end result would look like. For Kyle's cake I was told to make an army helmet. I tried looking on the internet to see if there were any other cakes like that but I could not find any. So I looked off a picture of a real army helmet with camo. I spent the beginning of the morning making chocolate frosting that tasted really good. The kids and I could not stop tasting it. I made up three different colors and I thought that they were a pretty good likeness to the camo colors. Next I had to decorate. Miah wanted to watch and be beside me the whole time. She was getting into every thing in the process and was making things a little difficult, but as long as I distracted her with having to lick off the frosting from the spatula she did fine.

She was getting a bit messy but that is OK. I planned on dealing with that later.

So this is the camo army helmet. After piping on the frosting it took me an hour to smooth it all down. The colors did end up mixing a little on the edges and really it is not a very pretty cake but it did look like an army helmet. I had originaly planned to decorate it with marshmellow fondant which would probably have looked better but I was afraid it would take a lot longer.

So Katie came and picked up the cake and they had it that night during Kyles party. I hope it tasted ok.

This is Lilly's special Barbie cakes. The house was a huge messy by the time I got to decorating these and an even bigger mess when I was done. I spent a while piping out the stars that cover that dress and I was very happy with the out come. With there being so many little stars you really can't see the areas that I messed up on. It just blended in together. Lilly really liked the colors and I think she enjoyed getting more that just one little barbie on there.

I had to buy a min cake mold and the barbie heads which come in a packet of four. They were only like two dollars so I thought it was a good deal for something special. They are not the cutest barbie heads in the world but they did the trick. These barbie's don't have any legs so that you are able to poke them into the cake.

We went to Wahooz (formally known as Boondocks) for Lilly's party. IT was just our little family who went but that was ok. We got to play games and chase after Miah. The kids got a whole bunch of tickets and lots of fun treats at the end. There were not enough little kid games and we vetoed the kid area because we thought it was too expensive. Shyesh, $2.50 per kid for this small little kid area.

Who doesn't love a ride on something that looks like a dinosaur are rocks back and forth.

We had cake and ice cream at grandma H's house. We had to poke the candles in the sides hoping that the barbie's hair would not catch on fire.

Well, she blew out the candles and wanted to get straight to the gifts and ended up not even being interested in eating her cake.

Doug had fun with it though.

And Miah enjoyed the ice cream.

Cameron loves cake so he was the one that ate the rest of the cake the following couple of days. Lilly is not a big sweets eater but I think that she did like looking at the cake that I made especial for her.