How It All Started

Until I had kids, making cakes never crossed my mind.  It wasn't until I started planning birthday parties that I really started paying attention to the cake.  It is, after all, one of the main attractions for a kids party, and my obsessive compulsive attitude toward a few certain things, meant that the cake had to match the party theme.


The first few parties went well, I found a chain store that would make a cupcake cake the way I had pictured.  Then suddenly, they stopped; the cakes started looking bad and only got worse.  I made a few attempts at making cakes my way, and while they were cute, they definitely looked home made and tasted like a box mix.  So, back to the chain stores I went.  After a soccer ball cake gone bad, and frantically searching the entire city for an iCarly cake that couldn't have taken more than 5 minutes from start to finish, I vowed never to buy a cake again.


I found a great starter kit from Wilton and started scouring the web for how-tos.  My sister was gracious enough to let my first real attempt at a cake be for my nephew's 8th birthday.

Aiden's cake was chocolate cake with homemade chocolate butter cream.  The character is a Lego Obi Wan done with a frozen butter cream transfer.  If you know Legos or Star Wars you may recognize what I attempted.  I learned a lot with this cake and while it didn't look as perfect as I had envisioned, it was definitely SCRUMPTIOUS!