Everybody Loves Cake

Today is my daughter's 11th Birthday. She is having a few friends over tonight for a sleepover. It's fairly low key but should be lots of fun. Anybody who knows me knows that I ALWAYS do my kids cakes. It started years ago when they were little and we had no money. Every kid deserves a special cake and so I started to get creative by making cakes that would match whatever theme we were doing for the party.

After years of doing it out of necessity, I feel like it's something I could never give up. I love doing it. I get a thrill out of planning out what I am going to do and how. I love baking but I also love creating edible artwork.



My daughter is into fairies and so her cake is a fairy house. I started with a gingerbread bundt pan I bought at 50 per cent off before Christmas (we don't eat gingerbread but we do eat cake and love decorating them with candies so I fell in love with it the minute I saw it). I used paste food colouring I had on hand as well as piping bags and Wilton tips I have from previous years.



All I had to buy was lots of icing and a small bag of chocolate rocks I found at the bulk food store. The base is my big wood cutting board covered in tin foil.



All in all I think it came together well and probably only cost $4 or $5 including hydro to bake the cake. Whoo!




And now for the clean up... hop to it Birthday Girl!! I don't think she's impressed!