Birthday Cakes

I children's birthdays fall on the 10th and the 11th. We celebrate with one party, two cakes. The castle cake was baked in a bundt pan, not hand sculpted. If it were hand sculpted by me, it would look more like something that came out of the south end of a cow rather than a princess castle. The other cake is the Discovery Space Shuttle. While painstakingly frosting that sucker, I realized two things: a) I will never get good at this, and b)making fun cakes is much funner with my sister.

Cake!

This cake is called 'Lemon Lovers Cake,' which I made for our early Easter shindig. Basically, you add lemon zest to the batter, zest and juice to the frosting, and top it with lemon curd. The flowers and lemons on top are real, brushed in a mixture of meringue powder and water, and sprinkled with sugar.

Why I'll Never Be A Cake Decorator: The Lawn Mower Cake

All my cake ideas look nice in my head. Almost none of them turn out like originally planned. This one is no exception. But a combined lack of tools and uninterrupted time leads to improvisation and the eventual deterioration of the original plan. What can you do!?