Sunday, August 7, 2011

A cake for my own birthday girl

To be honest, I have been so burnt out on baking lately that I really wasn't looking forward to making Phoebe's birthday cake - especially since I had just made 2 dozen cupcakes for a small playgroup birthday celebration for her just the day before.  But I knew that I would feel like a terrible mother if I spent all this time making cakes for strangers, then totally bail on my daughters own birthday.

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So I kept it reasonably simple.

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Phoebe loves all things fish and we spend lots of time watching Finding Nemo, taking field trips to the pet store, and most of bathtime is spent pretending she's a fish swimming in the ocean.

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Everything on the cake is fondant, including these little guys that I hand sculpted until about 1:00 in the morning the night before her birthday.

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I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.  Now if I could only find someone to do all of the baking, frosting making, and stacking of the cakes and leave just the decorating up to me, I'd be a happy camper.

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Phoebe's only request for her cake was that it was "schockalate", so I think she was pretty excited to see that she got some sugary fishes too.

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Here's the birthday girl herself before gobbling up fishy number three.

5 comments:

  1. Great job!!!! Live the little fishies. Did she have fun eating them.

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  2. That is so cute. My 2 year old would have loved it! I giggled when I read that you kept it "reasonably simple." Reasonably sensible to me is boxed cake & canned frosting. You have a great talent.

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  3. The cake is great. You're very talented.

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  4. Those fish are amazing! Very cute cake.

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  5. Wow, you're good!! What a lucky girl with so many birthdays and birthday cakes ahead of her :)

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