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Cakes

4 Fun Girlie Birthday Cakes You Can Make

March 15, 2010

You know me, love a fun birthday cake! After 9 years of slaving over castles, Star Wars, and Bionicle Boy Birthday cakes, God gave me a girl and then another. Oh my! Have we learned a lot about pink in a short amount of time.  I realize that in the girly cake department I’m just [...]

Birthday Cake Round-Up – This Thursday

January 25, 2010

One of the joys and challenges of being a mom is celebrating the milestones of your child’s life: his first steps, first words, school days, and, of course, birthdays. One of the special things that we do in the FishFam is celebrate birthdays with a fun and festive birthday cake. It’s more fun to make [...]

Creative Birthday Cakes: What Should I Make?

January 12, 2010

Life is full of challenges, is it not? And the blogosphere is no different. Two weeks ago, Crystal and I decided to “eat from the pantry,” and we invited you to do it with us. Last week, I asked if you’d Book It with me this year and set some reading goals. Today? I’m asking [...]

New Year’s Traditions: Bake a New Year’s Cake

December 28, 2009

As you know, we’re big on birthday cakes around here. So it only follows that we would make the New Year a “birthday” cake as well. We’ve been doing this for quite some time. I can’t even remember when it started. And we usually get a photo of all the kids around the cake that [...]

Bob the Builder Birthday Cake

November 17, 2009

We love Bob the Builder around here. We really do. You would think that now that the toddlers in the vicinity are girls that we’d have moved on to My Little Pony or something. But, no. FishChick loves Bob.

It may be that we just have more Bob the Builder movies than any other character or [...]

Lego Bionicle Thornax Birthday Cake

November 17, 2009

Remember this?

It’s the Lego Bionicle “thing” my son wanted his birthday cake to look like. You know I’m always up for a birthday cake challenge, right? (Just for the record, it’s called a Thornax.)

Well, I’m pleased to report that I came, I saw, I baked that cake!

The frosting job wasn’t the best, but I blame [...]

Birthday Cake Scheming….

November 7, 2009

FishBoy8 will celebrate his 9th birthday on Monday. One of our family birthday traditions is to have a cool birthday cake. The birthday kid usually chooses the theme. This year? He chose this thing.

I’m not really sure what it is. (Go ask your 8 year old sons.) But, we’re gonna have a birthday cake in [...]

Pretty Cool Cake: Make a Pirate Cake

October 12, 2009

Special birthday cakes are near and dear to my heart. I love the challenge of putting my kids’ latest interests atop a cake. The looks on their faces are just priceless. And being challenged by my readers is almost as much fun. I’ve even written an e-book with all sorts of creative, easy, and inexpensive [...]

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