Happy Birthday Jesus - December 2005

This is a cake the kids and I made for our family get together at Christmas.

 

One time when we were younger my mom made a cake with us at Christmas as a birthday cake for Jesus.  We wrote 'Happy Birthday Jesus' on the cake.  So, I thought that would be fun to do with the kids.

We made a cake and decided to decorate it by drawing a nativity scene on the cake with icing.  We ended up having less time to decorate it than I thought so it's not the best artistry, but it didn't matter to the kids, the meaning still came through.  :)  So, I put on a stable and manger with baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, and we put a star in the sky.  Then I thought I'd let each kid decide one thing to put on the cake.  Cara wanted the angel, Carissa was just one year old so I gave her some choices and she wanted the lamb, and Caleb wanted... Scooby Doo!  :)  He was SO excited about it.  I thought, sure, why not, and piped him on the cake (after a brief discussion about Scooby Doo not really being there that night, although a dog may have been).  :)

Scooby Dooby Doo, Where Are You... - April 2005

These are two Scooby Doo themed cakes I made for my son, Caleb's, 3rd birthday.

He had a Scooby Doo party.  For the brown 'Scooby Doo' paw print cake I just made a round cake and put four cupcakes around the top for toes and iced them all with buttercream.  I wrote Happy Birthday (not so well, but okay :) ) in the middle with blue icing.

For the white bone cake I made a small cake in a loaf pan to get a little rectangle and I made four small (6 inch I think) round cakes.  I placed the round cakes on the corners of the loaf pan to make it look like the shape of a bone.  Where the cakes overlapped I cut that part off the little rectangle loaf cake so the round cakes could fit in flat next to the rectangle middle.  Then I iced them all in white buttercream, piped a line around the edge of the bone in blue, and wrote Caleb's name in the middle.