Let Them Eat Cake
January is a BIG month in our family for birthday’s. Singstar Princess on the 11th, Farmboy on the 25th and Lleyton on the 29th. So, as you can imagine, we EAT a LOT of cake! 
Here is a look at our January birthday cakes.
It all began with a cake for Singstar Princesses sleep-over. Lleyton got to have 2 friends sleep over for his 8th birthday so Singstar Princess got to do the same. It’s not all that easy to try and arrange a sleep-over in the middle of the summer holidays but we managed. She chose to have it down the beach which worked out really well.
Her choice of cake for her sleep-over was an ice cream cake in the shape of a love heart. She decorated it herself, with the help of the 2 girls that were sleeping over.
I used vanilla ice cream and mixed smarties into it before moulding it in a heart shaped cake tin. Princess Singstar chose the decorations (although the candles were something I picked up during the year).
Her actual birthday was 2 days after the sleep over and fell on a Sunday so I made a slab cake for morning tea at church. Singstar Princess had a great time decorating it:
I drew the 8 into the icing but she did the rest. In fact, we had to stop her before the 8 became completely lost in a sea of lollies! LOL. She had fun though and enjoyed sharing a cake with our church friends, even if many were away that week (all the more for the rest of us!).
Of course, we couldn’t then have a family birthday tea without a cake. This is the one she chose:
She does love her PINK and her FLOWERS. A real girly girly!
I don’t have a ring cake pan so had to make 2 circles and cut out the centres. Trailer Boy and his cousin (who is also 5) had a great time icing the left over circles and COVERING them in lollies.
Yes, 3 cakes for 1 birthday - am I an AWESOME mum or what? ROFLOL (that’s “roll on the floor laughing out loud” for those who don’t “do” netspeak).
Farmboy was so impressed with my efforts making Singstar Princess an ice cream cake that I decided to make one for his birthday.
His favourite ice cream is cookies and cream so I bought some Oreo’s and some plain Chocolate Ripple biscuits and mixed them in with the ice cream.
This one was a lot easier because I was at home and had my electric mixer rather than trying to do it by hand like I had done with Singstar Princess’s cake.
You can just see that I added some plain vanilla ice cream to the bottom (which was the top when I was making it). With some crumbled flake and leftover chockies from another project, it was AWESOME!!!! (even if I do say so myself).
We had a bit of a dilemma with Lleyton’s birthday cake. He had already worked on his own design (all sketched out on paper) well before we knew we’d be away for his birthday. So, I got him to make his cake on the weekend before his birthday and we shared it with a few others.
We ended up with a truckload of lollies left over too!
As things turned out, our plans changed and we were home the night of Lleyton’s birthday. Well, you can’t have a birthday tea without a cake but I was feeling rather “caked out” by this point in the month. So I came up with this:
A Home Brand French Cheesecake I had in the freezer sprinkled with crushed Flake. Lleyton is a big cheesecake so it went over quite well.
All in all, we had some lovely birthday celebrations in January and not surprisingly, I’m rather “caked out”. Fitting into my jeans has been somewhat of a problem too! Ah-hem.
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Wow, you sure are setting the bar high for all of the other Mum’s out there! All of the cakes are gorgeous
Good grief!!!
I didn’t even make a cake for Stephanie’s 16th! I can just see the flashing neon sign…Bad Mother, Bad Mother, Bad Mother!
AWESOME!
My birthday is soon. I want a chocolate icecream brownie cake.
I will leave the front door unlocked, let yourself in
That’s a LOT of cake! Too much even for me! My mum would have cheated with one big slab cake that had every birthday name on it, and ONE party. She’s mean like that.
Oh my - look at all that cake.
What do you eat for the rest of the year?
Yum I’m a big fan of Sweeties! Well done
I managed to bake a cake for my son’s bthdy this year whilst keeping one eye on a venomous dugite snake in our entrance cupboard………. true story
Dearest Lightening Lady,
I have your shirt. I will return it to you for the sum of one MILLION dollars.
Cara Dee
Just kidding. I did find it tho, sorry about the wait, I am reeeeal lazy.
I am heading out on a quick weekend trip, which will be a perfect setting for the picture I will take with it. I will post it soon. I am in Utah, USA by the way.
Tamsyn - thank you. But really, a bit of icing and some lollies make cake decorating quite easy. I’m not one for all that fantabulous icing detail that some people do on cakes (the piping stuff I mean).
Sharon - LOL. Oh yes, terrible mother indeed!!!
NOT!
Kelley - No problem. See you then. We’ll go shoe shopping (no, not for you. I don’t care if it’s YOUR birthday. For ME silly). Oh, when was your birthday again????
River - well, it was a number of separate occasions so one cake might have looked funny by the time we cut some on each occasion. LOL. We had lots of help consuming them so it’s not ALL bad.
Jeanie - NOT CAKE!!! LOL. Only birthday left now is poor lil ole me in July. Who am I kidding? I’m getting a 3 month trip for my birthday! The kids are SO jealous (go figure, since they get to come too!).
Ribbon - PLEASE tell me you’re kidding! *shudder* A snake INSIDE the house!!! I’m so glad ours is on stilts (okay, blocks…but off of the ground nonetheless). Don’t think the snakes would bother. You do get my bravery award though!
Cara - LOL. I guess you’ll have to keep it given we’re poor drought ridden farmers! No millions kicking around here I’m afraid. I’ll look forward to your pictures. No dramas on the delay - life’s been chaotic for me anyway.