I was asked last week to make a cake for a 50th birthday at work…they wanted it to be funny, an over the hill sort of joke.

So again…I busted out the baking skills.

I’m glad Brad has a sense of humor…I guess he loved the cake.

I’m also glad Sue has a sense of humor too. Rumor has it she found it so funny, she sent a picture to her daughter!

I’m glad they liked it…but don’t worry, I was safe if they didn’t. I made it, delivered it, and got the heck out of town. To see what I was busy doing while they were noshing on yummy birthday cake…you’ll have to read the next post…

Happy Birthday Brad!

Two…

It brings with it so many stereotypes…a lot of them true.

Especially with this child.

He’s finding his independence…for the past 3 months.

I suppose its good. I want him to be independent. I just want him to be independent while still conforming to what mom says. Is that wrong?

Anyway…I digress.

The day started out like any other birthday here…with, you guessed it, the birthday donut!

Not so sure about the fire.

After that I hope he had a good day. I worked all day, so he was at daycare for most of it. He moved rooms at the daycare, too. I didn’t pick him up, so i don’t know how it went. What a big day for a little guy.

His party the day before was a success too…

He liked his cake. He just kept saying “fish”, “lub lub” (which of course is blub, blub – or what a fish says).

Anytime you’d ask him if it was his birthday, he’d just say “cake”, or “happy” as in happy birthday. Very cute.

And of course, he liked his presents…who doesn’t like presents?

Oh, Happy Birthday, Little Man. I hope we have a great year. And I hope you find that independence, decide its not for you, and go back to being my calm little man…

No, thats not true. I just hope the next year doesn’t kill me.

I’ll admit…my first reaction was “a what??” when I heard this from my little girls mouth.

“Mommy…I want a chicka chicka boom boom cake”

But since I do my best to make birthday dreams come true…I dove right in…

and because I tend to appreciate over-achieving in life…I decided to make it a rainbow cake, with homemade fondant to boot.

So, pull up a chair, sit down and enjoy the creation!

The cast of colors…

I used gel food coloring. I’d never used it before, but it turned out to be way easier than the liquid, and way less messy. And if anyone really knows me, less messy is automatically better for me!

Layering the colors.

Two beautiful pans of cake batter waiting to go in the oven!

And those same two beautiful pans, out of the oven.

I didn’t have any round cake pans myself, so I borrowed these from my friend Beth. They were so pretty…and the cakes literally fell out of them when I went to turn them out onto a cooling rack.

My fondant draped cake. I just like the word draped.  The fondant…homemade marshmallow fondant. Yummy…and fun to play with. A HUGE mess to make, but fun if you’re into that sort of thing.

And…the decoration stage.

A big thanks to my friend Rachel who lent me the letters to complete the chicka chicka boom boom cake.  Because it wouldn’t have been much of a cake without letters. The tree and the palm fronds I just cut with a knife, but used scissors to make the leaves look more realistic.

The book has pink edges with orange polka dots…something I just couldn’t resist adding! Plus, I thought the cake needed a little more.

The dots…waiting patiently to be put on.

The finished cake.

One happy four year old!

The rainbow inside.

I will definitely be making a rainbow cake again…so easy…so pretty…and it elicited quite the response from the party goers! (And it tasted good too!)