Let them eat cake(s) - 600 of 'em!

There was a request to see the 600 cakes so here they are . . . they wouldn't all fit on the stands so we just kept refilling! It seems fun in retrospect but I am pretty sure I am deceiving myself.

Cupcake Book Giveaway

I keep seeing this book - at the bookstore, at Costco, at Sam's Club. I have picked it up a few times and flipped through it but yesterday my girlfriend brought it in and I really sat down and looked at it. I HAD to run out and buy it. It makes you want to have a party just so you can make some cupcakes! I like it so much I decided one of you should have one too! So make a comment below and I will pick one lucky reader at the end of the week to receive the book!

In my former life I used to make wedding cakes and totally over the top birthday cakes. If I went to a kid's birthday and they had a store bought cake I was pretty sure that parent didn't actually love their child. I had my third child and got over that -my kids have had more than one ice cream cake, which feels like some kind of a step up from the grocery store cake! I got the obsession about fancy birthday cakes from my mom. She used to hand us a big stack of Wilson cake decorating books and let us pick any cake we wanted for our birthday. I had a hot air balloon cake, a grand piano cake (I didn't practice piano, I can't play it now, but I did take lessons!), and of course the infamous Barbie cake. I haven't totally given up on the cake decorating - a few years ago my little brother got married and I made 600 (!!!!) mini cakes for his wedding. After that my hiatus from cake decorating began! But I am back - reinvented as a cupcake decorator! I will keep you posted on how the designs work out!

This is a photo of the birthday cakes my mom made for my birthday circa 1978 . . . she made an individual cake for each kid at the party - oh the things mommy guilt drives you to do!