SPORTACUS AND DIEGO

LAZYTOWN!!!!! AND DIEGO!!!!!!!!
When Emily turned 5, our little friend James turned 2... they share a birthday, so often we share a party, and that means two cakes! Emily wanted Sportacus from LazyTown, and here he is:


I made Sportacus using the Diego pan, which has put to VERY good use in our home:

Here is another cake for Dad... I call this "Forester Diego" -- Daddy is a forester and the only thing missing from this Diego is a hard hat!

And then when Mary Pearl turned 4, SHE wanted a Diego cake....

This cake looks positively Day-glo because she loves orange and I tried to make everything orange that could possibly be orange. Unfortunately, it is hard to take a good photo of a flourescent orange cake. It just seems so darn shiny!

BEARS AND TRUCKS!

All of our children were born in China, which means pandas are very important to us all. When Emily was turning 6, she said she wanted a panda cake....


The ears, arms and legs are cupcakes coated in chocolate icing, and the bamboo is made from green-tinted sugar cookies. Dee-lish!!! The guests had cake and then cookies for dessert.
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When Emily turned 3, she also wanted a bear, but back then it was Funshine Bear she loved:

Daddy turned 32 many years ago, and this was one of my early cakes:

I still think it's fun and it tasted out of this world, so it's included even though all I really did was make roads from sprinkles and tossed the trucks about. :-)

EMILY'S LADYBUG

The cake that started it all!
May 2005, our first child turned 2. She had been with us since August 2004, and so her first party with us was a total blow-out. Sixty people piled into the backyard for food and balloons and of course.... cake.

I saw this on the cover of a magazine and had to try it. It was before I realized homemade icing is better than the canned junk at the grocery store, and it was back in the day where I used the little bottles of food coloring from Safeway. *ACK*

So the texture of the icing is horrible, it was threatening to slide off the cake all day, and it was SHINY. hahaha But it was still adorable. The cake was chocolate, the same chocolate recipe I use now and always get requests for.