My sweet niece turned 4 a little over a week ago. Due to various conflicts in everyone's schedule, her birthday party had to be postponed until this weekend. Being the glutton for punishment that I am, I asked the little angel what kind of a birthday cake she wanted for her party. She came up with various things and then finally decided on a castle cake - with a DRAGON...because, as everyone knows, castles ALWAYS have dragons. (I have no idea where she got this, but there was no doubt in her mind, so we just went with it) After scouring every store I could find in search of a dragon (with wings, she's a detail-oriented child) I had to give up. I figured I would make her the castle cake and maybe, just maybe I would make her a dragon out of fondant (I'll save you the suspense, that didn't happen). So, woke up this morning and started baking the 4 cakes it would take to make the castle, let them cool, went to the store twice for ingredients (is there some reason I *always* forget something critical during the first trip?), and spent the afternoon building a castle out of cake. Here are some photos from the progress...
And here's the finished product. My kids suggested the windows on the towers, and I put sparkly sugar crystals on the top of each layer. By the time I got to the end - I was so damn tired of frosting, etc...so I got kinda lazy - and wasn't very careful. The truth is, the 4-year old isn't going to care...so it's good enough. I hope she likes it - even without the dragon. Hey, life is full of disappointments, she might as well learn that lesson early. Happy Birthday sweetie!!
4 comments:
That looks delicious! Can't wait to eat a piece! Can't believe you didn't just draw a dragon on the side! ;)
BTW, Pink is WAY better than white!
Good Cake Making!
Loved the end part - life is full of disappointments, better learn that now, happy birthday! I LOL'ed.
So. Cool. What a lucky little girl! Plus a life lesson to boot. Wow!
I would've thought about commiting you if you'd actually made a dragon out of fondant. (Although, I have to agree with her...doesn't your castle have a dragon?)
Actually, the little princess got her cake EXACTLY the way she requested - so the life lesson was lost. O'well, there's always next year for me to attempt to colossaly disappoint her. The funny part was - that morning I called her and said "Guess what Lilly, Auntie Chen (what she calls me) made you an AWESOME castle cake" - her response? "COOL! Does it have a dragon??!!!" in the most excited 4-year old voice you could imagine. Then and there I decided that come hell or hight-water - that child would have a dragon on her cake. Luckily my sister was going shopping that morning anyway - and she found a dragon. It was small, and not green like I would have wanted - but it was a dragon - with wings...and that's what counted.
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