It has finally come to pass that Samuel and Shira are able to ask for their own cakes. My days of convincing them that their favorite cake is cream scones with whipped cream and fruit on top are over. Samuel requested vanilla with vanilla frosting, Shira wanted chocolate and more chocolate, of course.
That doesn't mean that I didn't make the cakes my own way, though. Still whole wheat flour for Samuel's cake using maple syrup for sweetener and halving what the recipe called for. Whipped cream for frosting - I was going to make a real frosting, but was horrified when I discovered that every frosting recipe on the planet starts with 4 cups of powdered sugar. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. Instead I stabilized the whipped cream, a process that horrified me just as much as the 4 cups of sugar I was avoiding. I won't be doing that again anytime soon.
We went to Diddam's for cake toppers, and though Shira initially requested puppies, she decided she preferred babies. She quite enjoyed decorating the cake all by herself. I thought I would be helping, but all I did was turn around for 30 seconds and when I turned back, she had managed to shove almost every baby into the cake. Let me tell you, babies in diapers on a brown cake.... well, you can imagine how appetizing that was. Hilarious, though.
Since Shira has proven herself to have adult tastes in her chocolate consumption (what 3 year old eats 85% dark chocolate?), I made a flourless chocolate espresso cake for me her.
Samuel requested a baseball cake. Steve thought I was crazy for agreeing, but I had a plan.
I think it turned out pretty awesome. Blueberries for the baseline, bananas for bases (Steve did the cutting on those; I realized I have no clue what the shape of bases are, I figured they were just squares) and thank you to Diddams for the baseball players.
Then there was the puppet show
Dinosaur Cowboys with some Three Little Pigs thrown in. It wasn't really to my taste, but it wasn't my birthday party, and I'm pretty sure having a real puppet show at their birthday party was kind of a dream come true for Samuel and Shira. Also made my life so much easier. No party activities to plan or prep or clean up after.
It was cool to see the Puppeteer show us how he does the show.
And the pinata smack down has become a must have tradition. I no longer make the pinata with the kids in a weekend, though. Bubbie worked on Samuel's rocket and Shira's little girl for months.
And the blowing out of candles
I love this one of Shira watching Samuel blowing his out.
Shira gets a little help and encouragement from Daddy.
I did warn everyone that I thought the cake probably wasn't that good, but it couldn't have been too bad since we managed to polish off both of them at the party and I didn't see a bunch of half eaten pieces on plates. I suppose people could have surreptitiously thrown theirs out, but plenty of people had seconds. Samuel and Shira announced them delectable, and that's all that really matters.
Wow, our kids are so big!
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