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Um...
Obviously they're breaking out from tradition , done with the Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book and its Train Cake, and a new parenting rite of passage has dawned: making a cake THAT'S NOT IN THE BOOK.
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| Fred's Train Cake: so old school. |
Da dah DAH!
Do I do the Number One with the the sleepy teddy bear, ala The Kids' Birthday Cake (Australian Women's Weekly Essentials) as I did for Fred, and long before I learnt about freezing the cake and doing the double-icing layer, and was up at midnight the day before shrieking hysterically "He DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT CAKE IS ..."
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Or do I do something that's NOT IN THE BOOK?
Let me know your fine opinions, or, what have you done for your child's first birthday?
Skate or die!!,
Enid
*Donkey's years: an official numerical term, as of now, when I said so.
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Make a cake which fills your own heart with joy and which does not cause midnight stress. Joe will be v happy regardless and this is probably the only birthday he is not going to be fussy about the shape of his cake!
ReplyDeleteTrue - I think I'll do the smarties, b/c of my no sugar rule 'except for birthdays' - I want the smarties, I'm sure Joe won't mind either way :)
DeleteI remember that book. My parents had it and now I have it (actually I think my copy is a hand-me-down from my parents). I order mine from a bakery because I'm rubbish at making cakes. I do cupcakes for pre-school/school but that is all.
ReplyDeleteI reckon stick with the book - only because if you start to let your mind (fingers?) wander towards Pintrest and the like your brain will explode with endless possibilities. I like the retro chic of the buttercream numbers, myself. That unicorn is just insane. Miss 4 went berserk looking over my shoulder. I could be in trouble when her 5th comes around.
ReplyDeleteWow! Impressive! The unicorn reminds me of Charlie the unicorn (YouTube it if you don't know him). I'd go with the easiest and least time consuming one! I saw a cake tin with parts to make up all numbers so you don't even have to cut them!
ReplyDeleteAshleigh got a number one smartie cake for her first birthday. I'd bet good money her brother will get the same deal next year!
ReplyDeleteRetro smarties it is. Thanks everybody :)
ReplyDeleteMy son's first cake was one part banana cake, one part icing, one part a pack of 100s & 1000s and a shitload of tears. Mine. He didn't even eat cake.
ReplyDeleteI'd go with the cake of least effort. More time for the mass consumption of cheezels for you!
Try You Tube - The Betty Crocker Kitchens. You will want to smush the presenters faces in but they do make some cool cakes.
ReplyDeleteShite….I am already filled with panic. My littlest turns 4 tomorrow and she wants a 'mermaid swimming in the waves, and fairy cupcakes and princess cake'. You know, just all rolled in to one. I am NOT that mother (the crafty one …) BUT birthday cake is my nemesis. I stay up all night making the masterpiece every year, generally from the WWCB (the original, natch).
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU Brenda… you may have just saved me. I will get the ooooohs and aaaahs and pathetic 4-year-old approval I so desperately crave.