Rainbows and Mermaids and Birthday Cakes
8 years ago
It's hard to believe, but Maci is four, she'll start pre-school this year. I asked her what kind of cake she wanted and she told me she wanted a cake with rainbows and mermaids. Ok, then. After some thought, I made rainbow chip cake, an almond sour cream cake with spinkles baked in the batter. I hollowed out the center and filled it with multi-colored M&Ms for more "rainbow". Then I frosted it blue and made some fondant seaweed and added some sea creatures and bubbles. A mermaid on top, sitting under a rainbow with a shooting star. Ashley added a sparkly "4". We needed some cupcakes too, so those were the same batter, also filled with M&Ms and topped with fondant mermaid tails, brushed with luster dust by my sous chef, Makayla.
Look, it's a birthday mermaid with her cake!
A closer shot of the cake:
The filling:
And some cupcakes:
Those mermaid tails were a pain in the patoot. Ashley sent me a picture of cupcakes and asked if I could do them. I asked her to send me instructions, maybe a pattern, that would be nice. Instead I got a Pinterest link. I hate Pinterest. (sigh) No instructions, of course, and no pattern, and no help. Just a dozen blogs with people remarking how cute those cupcakes are. Grrrr. So I made my own pattern with a piece of cardboard, cut fondant tails, used the small end of a melon baller to make scales and a cocktail fork to make the lines on the tails. Pffft. Who needs instructions..
I'm happy with the way it turned out, plus it tasted good. My ex-husband's current girlfriend told Ashley to tell me that the cake was delicious. (grin) That just seems kind of messed up, LOL, but at least the cake was good.
Annie
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Comments (85)Thanks, Kim, for starting a new thread! I promise to not blind people on the new one! LOL I included a link below to the new thread. I sure hope you're doing better, Kim... You're still very much in my thoughts and prayers. Dorothy, I'll shoot you an email on the fonts later after I finish the file for the WOW swap. In short, for bigger font, use everything between the quotes, but replace the two quote symbols with a ""font size=4>Type whatever you want in here between the HTML codes."/font> If this isn't clear, I'll send more later by email.... I hope I don't forget... If I do, just email me! LOL Blessings, Angela...See Morecan we talk about...birthday cake?
Comments (31)Hi guys, I can't thank you all enough for your help! The cake came out beautifully, I'll see if I can get pics uploaded tonight. The starburst was a big hit and the starburst balloons were great, and easy. I used scissors to cut them into the shapes & then piped the strings on. Then scattered colored sprinkles over the whole top of the cake. William was delighted with his cake, the cake itself was delicious. Stacy- I made the strawberry filling from frozen berries and used your friend's cream cheese frosting recipe with twice as much cream cheese and butter but only the 1 lb of sugar (mainly because that's all that I had) and it was just the right amount of sweetness for the cake. The starburt balloons prompted lots of discussion on what other candy would work...things like fruit roll ups (or do they still make those square sheets of "fruit leather"?) or airheads (which are supposedly like starburts only already flat). So now, if I've got to make another balloon cake for the kid's party on Saturday I'm not afraid! This sort of cutting out shapes as decorations will work out well for me because while I have a steady hand for drawing, painting or glass cutting I seem to be having some sort of fit whenever I try to decorate with icing. Kathleen- I think that I'll try to get to the WS outlet this Sunday. I wonder if Woodbury will have them? And thank you all for the compliments on my little guy. I can't believe he's 4! Still every bit as cute, just a lot bigger. Nna...See More'B' birthday party for boy's 5th b-day
Comments (8)Well, the party was a success so I thought I'd share the results after your thoughtful replies. Invitation: Cut out a large letter B from paper printed with balloons. I randomly wrote on the front B=Ball, B=Balloon, B=Book, B=Bubbles, B=Bugs. Then I wrote the party details for the Big Boy Birthday Bash on the other side, including that this was a "B" themed party. Food: (I was cooking for about 43 adults and kids.) Beefy Ribs and (Buns with Hotdogs for the kids) Brown Rice and Chickpea Rainbow Salad (GREAT pesto vngrte) Beans with Lemon and Walnut Vngrte Bacon and Blue Cheese Mashed Potato Casserole Biscuits with fresh herbs and Basil Butter Drinks: Basil lemonade Blueberry lemonade Cake: Banana cake in the shape of a bumblebee. I found a baseball cake pan the shape of half of a ball and thought "why not make that the body of the bee?" So I did. I used a 6" round cake for the head, but I cut it out a bit to fit snuggly into the round body cake piece. I frosted it with golden yellow buttercream. I was in a hurry so instead of mixing black icing for the bee's stripes, I sprinkled on brown jimmies in stripes. I used black licorice for the antenna and legs. I made wax paper wings with popsicle sticks as veins. I found those black licorce wheels as big eyes. It was so cute!! And tasty! Since I needed cake for 43 people, I made some extra banana cupcakes frosted with the bee frosting and some jimmies. Games: Balls (football, baseball, tennis balls, curvy ball and catchers, bouncy balls, soccer ball, beach ball, etc.) Bubbles (FIL makes his own bubble juice and has tons of fun wands) Butterfly pinata (couldn't find a bumblebee) filled with small bouncy balls, bee rings, etc. Treat bags: Black Bags filled with small "B" items like bubbles, ball erasers, blowers, etc. Decorated the house and deck with tons of balloons from the Dollar Store. Some of the gifts given to DS began with B, and some even decorated their gift bags and cards with B. It was cute to see people get into the theme. All in all, it was a great party. Kids had a fabulous time--too much of a good time at moments. ;) Thanks for your help!...See MoreSD birthday
Comments (79)"both families have to stop competing and focus on what's important." 100% agree. As far as JB not being a good role model, that wasn't exactly my issue. I think his songs are typical/fine/ for tweens and young teens. I just don't like (and this is a jab at society in general, not YOU, Mrs. P) encouraging such little girls to swoon over him or ANY other *teen idol.* It's not that I think there's anything terrible about him or his music. Every generation has a JB. In mine, it was New Kids on the Block. But I think the ages at which girls are often encouraged, either through the media or even their families/friends, to be interested and have crushes on these singers is getting younger and younger. I went to my first concert--NKOTB---when I was 10 and in 5th grade. Now you have girls in first grade acting all lovestruck. THAT is my issue, not Justin Bieber himself. There will always be the Justin Biebers out there and I think it's fine for tweens/teens to swoon over those guys. It's all part of hormone crazed adolescence, I get it. But why rush it? Our little girls have plenty of time for that. I prefer to keep my daughter as young and innocent as long as possible. It's the whole *attitude* that bothers me. It reminds me of my dad's girlfriend with her DD, who is now 11. I remember back when this little girl was maybe 5 or 6, GF would laugh and say, "Shake your booty, girlfriend! Sexy girl!" It was all said in a joking way and she and her family would laugh as this little girl danced doing a "booty shake" but to me, it was just so....unnecessary. Why does a 5 or 6 year old little girl need to be called sexy, or encouraged to shake her butt while she dances? It's THAT attitude I dislike and I think, unfortunately, it's becoming more prevalent....See More
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