Rainbows and Unicorns

Eloise's 5th birthday party was all planned out. It was a no-brainer for the girl who spent most of her 5th year crawling around on the floor and barking. The same girl who outlasted us all and watched The Puppy Bowl in it's ENTIRETY.  There really was no other choice, it was to be a puppy party. I was busy searching online for cheap dog bowls and bone shaped cookie cutters when the Oriental Trading Company catalog arrived in the mail. It took one look at the magic of the rainbow unicorn page to completely change her mind. She HAD to have a rainbow unicorn party. So, a rainbow unicorn party she had. Although I can be a no fun, vegetable and early bedtime pushing mama 364 days of the year, when it comes to birthdays, I aim to please.

Sweet Girl First Birthday

This was my first adventure in making marshmallow fondant. Somehow these pictures were lost, but thankfully I had shared them on FB and I was able to download from there, then re-upload here. I'm not sure what that does to the image quality, but that can't be good. The bottom picture is Eloise with her birthday presents doing a little baking of her own.

Superheroes

This was Gabe's fourth birthday. We didn't get a picture of the cake, but all is well because this year, it was a holy disaster. I had ambitions of doing this but it ended up being a bunch of very unappetizing tilting gray blobs with some toys stuck on. But Spiderman came!

Little Miss Sunshine

This was Eloise's 2nd birthday. We decided to add a little brightness to the dreary Pacific Northwest winter with a sunshine theme. The ice castles were just fun. In some places, you could make those outside that time of year. But, we don't get enough cold, so we set a tub up in the kitchen.

Triceratops cake

Gabe turned three years old two weeks after we moved into a new house, after one night of homelessness at the Comfort Inn with everything we owned in the world parked outside in a u-haul. How to make this boring situation more interesting, you ask? Make a very ambitious cake and throw a huge party with a house full of toddlers, of course!

Farm Birthday

Hello Kitty

Lego birthday

Gabe's fifth birthday. The cake is decorated with buttercream icing, the green plate is fondant the bricks are cake pops with a candy coating and the lego men are molded candy melts. I made the sign by downloading a lego font and drawing on fondant with edible markers.

Princess Castle cake

Star Wars Birthday

 Millennium Falcon cake for G's 6th birthday. Carrot cake with homemade marshmallow fondant. Please excuse the storm trooper trying to invade the ship. While we know it is not authentic to the story, it is what the birthday boy wanted.