I am sitting here with the top button of my jeans undone while DH is snoring on the couch and the kids are (ominously??) quiet in their rooms. Too much food, 90% of which was totally unhealthy but its a birthday party right? I wouldn't be surprised in one or both kids are sick, I take the view that at birthday parties the kids can govern themselves and eat what they like.
His cake I kept flip-flopping between a construction cake or a train. He is a typical boy in to his vehicles so either would have been a hit. Being two I didn't want to do a whole theme party just yet because it was mostly adults coming and in the end I decided on construction. I did however deviate from my original plan which I probably shouldn't have, I was going to make a two tier round cake, instead I used a large bowl to give me a hill, but I wish it had more height.
I wanted the cake to have a stratified layer look as though there were different soil layers (yes the scientist in me geeking out), it worked ok but I would have liked it to be more defined. It failed because a) the shape of the bowl and b) the cake wasn't cooked when I took it out of the oven the first time and took it out of the bowl - the cake feel apart with gooey batter going everywhere. I just sort of shoved it all back in and squished it down and cooked it some more. Lucky for me frosting hides all the sins. Although it wasn't helped by my piping bag bursting (you get what you pay for , $2 set of course its going to break).
But in the end all that matters is the taste right, at it was good. And Oakley certainly was excited although he just wanted to drive the truck around, he was far less interested in waiting for us to sing happy birthday.
