Baking, The Art You Can Eat!

My daughter is now 5!!! Woooo! For such a big milestone of all of us surviving these past five years, I wanted to make sure she got a pretty big "WOW" from her cake! Her theme this year was My Little Pony, which was a very spur of the moment obsession for her that really came flying out of nowhere.... Thankfully, she had a ton of MLP hand-me-down toys and it's still pretty popular in party & toy stores - had MLP balloons, plates, napkins, banners, and plenty of stuffed ponies (added plenty of blue since that's her favorite color and helps balance out the crazy amount of pink).  Anyways, on to the cake!  So the idea for the cake was make a normal cake but drown it in rainbows. That means the inside has to have rainbows and the outside has to have rainbows!  Because I didn't realize I was going backwards, the bottom layer started as red (rather pink in the picture - strawberry flavored!) and it would go up from there - red, orange, yellow, green, blu...

Before I forget, I also would like to post the cake for my youngest daughter's 1st birthday that was a little while ago *cough*lastNovember*cough* ... Aaaanyways, the theme for this first birthday was Winnie the Pooh because Pooh is timeless and a classic and I just love him! And not many one year old's really have a preference of what theme they want....   For her birthday, I wanted to make a small cake and a bazillion little mini cupcakes! Although it's not the finished product - I forgot to take a picture :( - you can see the many mini cupcakes I made the night before the party. I had strawberry, carrot, red velvet and milk chocolate cakes and had strawberry, chocolate, vanilla and cream cheese frosting to top them :) I also made some cookie-brownies because who doesn't love cookies and brownies together?? This cake was... some flavor... oh wow, I really cannot remember the flavor of this cake. I think it might have just been milk chocolate as we...

My daughter turned 4 last year and I am just posting this now... man, time sure has flown by... been busy with our second daughter and life in general... haven't been baking too often, but I'm trying to get back to the grind!  So before my daughter turns 5 this year, I think it would be good to post her 4th birthday cake! With my daughter in preschool and with preschool friends, for her 4th birthday, we decided on two parties - one for her and her friends and a second for the family members.  When I asked her what kind of theme she wanted for her big fourth, she answered with the obvious answer of "Frozen". Now, I love Frozen as much as the next animation fan, so I wasn't disappointed that she had been swept up in the Frozen fever. I was excited because I get to make not one, but TWO Frozen cakes! :)  The first one began a little like this...  So below you'll see the lovely cake I baked. Can you guess the flavor? It was watermelon! It turns out w...