Sunday, 2 May 2010

Birthday Cakes


Birthday Cakes husband and that i have a dirty secret. It's sordid. It's embarrassing and it's simply not the pinkish ears of the innocents. At night, when the youngsters are in bed and also the lights are dimmed we build birthday cakes along.
Our obsession started when our son developed an interest in fire trucks before his third birthday. he is continually been a terrible sleeper and having exhausted all other methods of serving to him sleep, we tend to had turned to watching cake decorating shows on YouTube. It worked every time and allowed us to get pleasure from our nights without meltdowns or hysteria. It additionally sparked an intense need for a fireplace truck cake in his little brain. as a result of we tend to are on a awfully limited income, we tend to set to make him one as a gift.
One night, we tend to pooled my three years of fine arts in university along with his seven years of graphic style coaching and sat right down to produce the mother of all fire trucks. it had been a good deal of fun. we tend to sat in our kitchen till much past our bed times and moulded elements out of fondant. we tend to dyed and rolled and pounded till we tend to were satisfied. Our son, Holden, was satisfied too as was the other eager toddler boys at his party. By the time the celebration was over, we tend to had received plenty of compliments furthermore as an invitation for a Thomas Train cake from my sister in law.