The Birthday Cake

The birthday cake. At least once a year I splurge into my insane idea of creating a memorable cake for one of my children. I have no idea why I do it. It always starts as an awesome idea. It is perfect in my head.

But, everytime I seem to forget who is going to be creating the cake…me!

I have a few cake successes in my past. Sha Sha’s 5th birthday cake was pretty darn cute. Not as cute as I imagined of course, but it was presentable.

I’ve also done a few of my infamous “toothpick cakes”. I take stickers or pictures and tape them to toothpicks which I put all over the cake. They always turn out cute. I don’t know why I just don’t stick with that whole innovative idea.

And sadly, come to think of it, it’s always the Ringleader that suffers at my hand. His 1st birthday, I threw a huge party and the theme was “sports balls”. I had the super cool idea of mini soccer ball and basketball cakes. Again, perfection in my mind.

The Rockstar Nurse and some friends of mine STILL make fun of those cakes that were presented 7 years ago. They were yummy, but I confess they did not look like a soccer ball in the least. I will still argue that the basketballs were cute.

Then there was the Ringleader’s 6th birthday. Or maybe it was his 7th. I can’t remember because I blocked it out of my memory as a coping mechanism. I had a wonderful idea of a rocketship cake! How easy? How cool?!

Well, I didn’t think it looked that bad, that is until the Rockstar Nurse gasped when he saw my cake! He quickly informed me that it was the stunning replica of the male genatalia.

Sigh.

He was right. So we flipped some things around and it again became “presentable”.

So this year, I decided to do it again. “I will make the cake!”

I saw a cute skateboard cake, but knowing my history I knew mine would not end up as cute.

So, I had the brilliant idea of the number 8 for his 8th birthday!

I can’t possibly mess up a number 8 cake! It’s just 2 round cakes!

Well, it was a dramatic effort as normal, with too much detail to hold your interest.

And again the Rockstar Nurse became mortified when he saw the cake. Basically, because when you looked at the 8 cake sideways, it looked like a woman’s, well you know. I put a cookie in the middle of the circles…I think that is what “pushed” it over the edge.

The Rockstar Nurse does get quite annoyed by my creative endeavors. I can’t complain outloud because I know he will vehemently respond, “just buy the flippin’ cake!”

And yes. Next year I will buy the cake. Well, at least for the Ringleader. But I did see a really cute guitar cake you can make for Lil’Rocker, a princess cake for Yao Yao and a pony cake for Sha Sha.

If only you could see them in my mind:)