Cake #7: Baby Shower cake

     Hey there people that enjoy cake! Well, Decathlon is finally over and I have time to write. Ok, so where are we? Hmmm... 
     This week's cake is one I have mentioned before but haven't made a post about. I mentioned it in Margaret's cake post for her baby shower. This week I'm going to talk about Kathleen's shower cake and cupcakes. They're a little similar to Margaret's. It's the same cradle design but the cupcakes are different. So, for those of you that have seen her boys, David and Mikey, this was the shower for her oldest, David.
     She made...sorry, I've got writer's block today :-)

     She made both the cupcakes and the cake vanilla and made a whole vat of her butter cream frosting which she made into many different colors: yellow, blue, light blue, and the normal white.  So, she frosted it as you see to the right. Kathleen's cake was a little more fun than Margaret's cakes. Well...so says the crayons on the wheels of the cradle. Now, both of the baby shower cupcakes had toppers on them. Kathleen's cupcakes had shiny, purple sprinkles and a semi-clear baby binkies on them.
     One little fun fact, before we bring this post to an end. We played a game with the binkies, at the beginning of the shower people were given one of the cupcake topper binkies on a piece of ribbon and had to wear them as a necklace. Now, throughout the whole shower if, during a conversation, you used the word "baby" and the other person recognized it, you had to give your binky to them. At the end of the shower, whoever had the most binkies won...well, I forgot what they won but ... it was a good idea. Which reminds me... Well, that's it for today so until next week!
    

Cake #6



Yup, that is our overn for right now... and
that terrible sink as our ONLY sink.

     Well, first off I am so sorry for not putting a blog up in so long, but I've been busy with IB tests, High School tests, Decathlon and haven't found time to write and mom hasn't found time to bake since... well, take a look for yourself......(This is the part where you look at the picture to the left) So, where to start? Alright, so yesterday was my Academic Decathlon at Santa Margarita High School and mom was commissioned to make some type of dessert, and knowing her she made a cake. Our themes this year were Michelangelo for fine arts, Space for science, World Youth Day for religion, and presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison for social studies, and a book called Belle Prater's Boy for literature. So, she chose space.

     Now, I had no idea what she was doing with the cake until she let me use her computer and she forgot to close the picture of a NASA space shuttle : ) . So, she makes two large rectangle cakes and carves the base of the ship out of one and then takes a little strip from the other cake to make the 3D part of the cake.

     So, you know that at the bottom of the cake there's supposed to be three thrusters. She took three ice cream cones and stuck them into the cake and cut up a fruit roll-up into little strips and put them into the cones to make it look like fire was coming out of it, just before take off.

     She also made a couple of little star shaped cupcakes. She frosted them with black frosting and added some blue/purple srpinkles and it looked like a star. she put it around the cake to make the shuttle look like it was in space.

     So, we all enjoyed and nibbled at the cake since we had it, about 10 minutes from the award ceremony and we were all so nervous. We ended up with an individual 4th place medal for English/Grammar and a team 3rd place medal for the Super Quiz. So, until next week...hopefully :)