More Birthday Stuff

A circuit that didn't make it onto the cake.


The birthday boy patiently waiting to open his presents and eat cake.


For Christmas Sean had asked for a hymnal. Mom and dad got him one and promised to have his name engraved on it. Well, for his birthday he got a brand new one with his name on the front. He was so excited!


Here he is looking at his hymnal.

Sean's Birthday...Number 7!!!

Based on what we were giving Sean for his birthday, we decided on a circuit board cake. These are the 'circuits' I made (with some assistance from the kids and Damian). I bought an insane amount of candy! The bases are graham crackers and the green, blue and white frosting is royal icing.

This is the cake pre-decorations. The original plan was for it to be black. I started with a dark chocolate frosting and added black coloring. I stopped when my arm was too tired of mixing! (in my defense it was getting close to midnight!)


This is the cake with all the circuits on board. The 'Happy Birthday' is supposed to be an LCD screen.


The Charleston Chews in the middle of all these circuits have Sean's birthday and year. We started with 2002, the year he was born, and put it on the circuit on top of the cake. then for each of his 7 years there's a circuit on the side of the cake. These circuits are all connected to a candle on the top.

Monkey Cake

Our friend who moved to California had a birthday on March 1st. A couple of weeks before, I was making banana bread and he hinted that he would like so. So I decided to make him some banana bread and send it to him for his birthday.

When I told Damian, he said I should do more than just send banana bread, so I figured I would throw some cookies in with it. Well, when Sean got wind of this, he said I should make the monkey cake! That's because the cake is a banana cake. So Sean figured we could cover all the bases with a monkey cake (he had also decided he wanted this cake for his birthday party).

So I decided to do it. I won't go into all the details, but I did overnight FedEx this cake to California. There were some chocolate chip cookies thrown in as well (and some of them were even sandwiched with frosting in the middle!). Dave was very surprised and said everything got there perfect! I wish I had asked him to take some pictures when he took it out of the box. Oh well.

Cake Decorating

This was my final cake from Course 2. I made all those flowers you see. The pansies are my favorites (they're the purple and yellow ones).


The basket weave pattern was also pretty cool. It turned out to be much easier than I thought it would be.


I think this is a pretty cool picture of one of my roses. The roses are another example of something that I thought would be really difficult to do and they turned out to be pretty simple once I learned how.