Say it with a Kiss – Hershey Kiss birthday cake
Hershey shaped cake with levels of Hershey kisses, with a bit Hershey kiss on top. What more could a girl ask for? Yay chocolate.
This one was for L’s birthday in ‘09 and you can see in the picture below there was lots of lovey dovey accents with heart plates, red/pink decorations, and even red kool-aid to match.
As per our usual tradition of not being allowed to see the cake until the moment the party is ready to light the candles and blow them out, here’s L waiting anxiously:
Does that not look anxious enough? How about this one then?
Yeah, excitement does funny things to one’s face, hehe.
Facts About Food Friday – Heart cake without a special pan
Yay, Of Home and Muse had a picture example. Easy enough, right?
FAF #4
Who needs a heart-shaped cake pan if you have a square one and a circle one? Bake a cake in each, cut the circle one in half, turn the square so it’s facing like a diamond, and then add each circle half to the top sides. Yay, a heart!
I don’t bake cakes often, but I wish I would’ve thought of this one a long time ago. I’ve been lugging around a large awkward shaped heart cake pan for many years now, just because I thought maybe I’d need it at some point. It’s had a few uses over the years, like the time my mom made a Mickey Mouse cake using a heart as the base. But you have no idea how much of a pain in the butt it is to stack in a cabinet. It would never lay flat. Boo. :(
Pacman Birthday Party – Waka, waka, waka
Or is it wakka, wakka, wakka?
When my sister saw N’s Mario birthday party, she mentioned wanting a Pacman one. Now normally we don’t accept requests, but she ‘is’ getting older and she does have an obsession with Pacman. Oh god does she ever. She’s constantly pointing out “oh my god, that looks like Pacman, waka, waka!” in her squealy girly voice. By now, we just groan every time she does it, but it did mean Pacman was quite suitable for her party.
We could’ve taken the easy road and just made a round cake, cut out a little pie slice, and added some yellow icing. Judging by the other birthday posts recently, though, does it really sound like something we’d do?
Heck no!
First, the entire Pacman board was drawn out in icing atop a double set of cake to fill a 9 x 13….half chocolate, half white.
Then a third was used for a small Pacman shaped cake done in yellow cake.
Give some fondant ghosts some eyes….
Wait, doesn’t that muffin liner Pacman at the bottom look out of place? Of course….because he’s missing all his blue ghost friends. Waka, waka.
Okay, so that’s not exactly the greatest angle of picture to see them at their ghostly best, but hey, you get the idea, lol.
Um, did I mention that the tiara flashed, too? Yeah, she regularly wears it to school, sigh. :P Here’s a quick video snippet of it. So quick you might have to play it 2 or 3 times before you pick up that that’s Pacman music in the background. ;)
The rest of the party included PacMan cups (no, this isn’t standard to stick things to the cups, but after N’s Mario cups, didn’t want this one to feel gypped :P), ghost balloons (although, not the exact colors, hehe), and homemade pizza rolls that were gone in a matter of minutes. I’ll do a separate post for those.
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