....And I didn't cry once!

As everyone knows the last week has been a little busy and after Tuesday's post I really "just didn't feel like it". But, I'm back, its Saturday and the husband is working and I have BIRTHDAY CAKE pictures to post!

First let me say that I will probably never, ever make another castle cake again. Good God almighty. Both practice cakes did well but, as usual the real thing brought me to my knees. Let me state for the record I am NOT a professional. I am G-MOM and I love to bake my g-kids their birthday cakes. G-son just tested my patience and my creativity! Frankly, I was too damn nervous to even drink before I made this bad boy. To re-hash he wanted a castle on a moat with dinosaurs, cars, army men, ice cream and animals. As everyone knows you don't DARE leave anything out. Because no matter how sloppy or professional you will hear "G-mom, wheres the dinosaurs? I thought I said put dinosaurs on it". Which will cause you to have a murderous thought towards your sweet little shit of a grandson. But, I managed to put everything he asked for on the cake.

Cake making day went well, bi-polar didn't bother me so I wasn't pissed or stressin'. I came home mixed up the sheet cake, vanilla cream and the castle cake, chocolate fudge. I thought using one of those silicone forms would be easier, yeah OK maybe the first 2 times but not on the BIG ONE! I baked on Tuesday, froze until
Wednesday. Wednesday night I bring out the sheet cake cut in half long ways and layered vanilla and chocolate ice cream between the halfs. Set back in the freezer while I get my decorating implements out. Normally I use a butter knife to spread icing. It was good enough for my mother and her mother so why break a family tradition? This time I bought a Wilton Icing spreader...$5.95!!! I fell immediately in love. Smooth, even strokes. It was perfect. OOO I was so excited I ran to the garage and made the husband come watch how this thing worked. Needless to say I got the ever exciting comment of "Thats nice honey", and back he went to finish his beer. I sprayed my green and blue color for the moat, I drew my "walls" with a Wilton icing pen then sprayed them to look moldy. Back into the freezer. Pop out the castle. OMG one tower broke and fell off! Shit one is cracked too, DAMMIT its crooked as hell!!! OMG, OMG! Thats when the cussing started..loudly. "You stupid bitch, thats what you get for being so cocky about the moat, the cake Gods are gonna make you pay". Husband hears me and decided he might want to check on the level of violence going on in the kitchen. I have been known to pitch a whole dinner or dessert because I didn't think it looked, tasted or turned out right. Calmly, as only a banker can be he suggests that I squeeze the brown icing into the crack and around the bottom of the tower hold it with toothpicks and we will freeze it long enough to enable me decorate it. Thats after I cut the bottom and try to level it off. That was a cluster $%^K. Finally I decided it was sitting on a hill top on one side. I took Wilton Cookie icing and outlined every door, window and block. The day of the party I placed the castle on the sheet cake moat and added all the things the g-son wanted. I am proud to say that despite two meltdowns I didn't cry once! I'm surprised the words coming out of my mouth didn't melt everything but I didn't cry!
Everyone thought it looked great and tasted even better. G-son declared it "AWESOME" and his BFF said I was "COOL". So there you go.









Here is the birthday boy admiring his cake and enjoying his "Big Cheese of the night"
birthday drink.




For those that don't remember, I had enjoyed a relatively "Chucky Cheese" free grandma-hood up until the woman in this picture ruined it!!!! Daughters' BFF, one trip on a rainey teacher planning day a BAM! Thats where we are spending Valentines Day. Pizza, no beer, a singing mouse and the biggest brightest smile on the cutest 5 year old ever.





And at the end for a kid who would never, ever hug Yogi Bear when we went on vacation but swore every year that "this time I'll hug him, OK grandma"?
it was all worth it.