Another Way to Be Creative

When my oldest daughter turned one, I decided to get into cake decorating. I think I took a class through Wilton and purchased many of the icing tips. When my daughters were little I often times purchased the pans in the shape of something...Big Bird, Cabbage Patch Kids, etc. Now that I have grandchildren I see there is a new world of options through googling for cake shapes.

This was the latest creation last Sunday. Little Sammy is into horses and wanted a "Horsey Cake with those guys", he kept saying. We weren't sure what he meant by those guys, but wondered if he meant cowboys. I didn't have any cowboys but did find Indians and some pilgrim people that I stood up around the cake. It must have worked because he looked thrilled with his horsey cake.

This is the same little boy

One year ago when he

started loving trains.

Can you see his tongue sticking out of his mouth? It was so cute to watch him look at all the details. This train cake was a hit with all the children obviously because of all the candy in the cars.

A couple of years ago, I made the pirate cake for my oldest grandson as he was having a pirate party. This cake had lots of details and was a little nerve wracking, but fun to put together and create the ship. The brown around the outside edges is brown sugar for sand.

The look on his face was worth all the time it took making this one. Look at the little boy in the back ground. I giggle everytime I see this picture.

I'll see y'all when I get back from Dallas.