So I'm totally cheating this year. I just don't have the time or energy or presence of mind to draw Diego on Zach's birthday cake. In fact, I'm going to use frosting...gasp...FROM A CAN! He wants double chocolate, anyway, and chocolate frosting (the good kind) is hard to make.
After searching the cake decorating aisle and the toy department for a small Diego figurine with no luck, I desperately asked at the bakery. Did you know they sell the little plastic junk they use to make their icky-tasting, fluorescently-frosted $20 cakes? And they had DIEGO!
$5 may have been a rip off. It came with a figurine of Diego and his baby jaguar, two palm trees, and a somewhat dorky little compass toy that the figurine snaps onto to make a "treasure box." It's dorky because the compass doesn't actually work. Come on, how hard is it to make the little spinning hand magnetic? But he can pretend when we're on hikes.
I just looked at the reciept and cha-ching, it rang up as only $4! It's going to save me hours of decorating time, because I get a little perfectionistic when it comes to drawing in frosting. Right now, it's totally worth 4 bucks!
Of course, I could have whipped this up in no time:
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I've done both kinds of birthday cakes: home made and store bought...just all depends on what Matt wanted. And since I cannot draw to save my life, I have to come up with alternatives.
Matt wanted a Knight-in-Shining-Armour birthday cake so I had the bakery make a cupcake cake (so much easier with seven year old boys) to look like ground covering and then I put 3 really nice knight figurines fighting a large dragon on it. He still has the figurines and plays with them.
For Alex's first birthday, I think I am going to do mini-cupcakes in the shape of his favourite toy--an octopus.
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