And so it begins....a week of cake making!!!

    Every April for 1 week , Im a cake maker :) Not a very good one but its a tradition that started when I had my daughter, Jenavieve. I don't like store bought cake, so I vowed to always make my kids a homemade cake.  Her first birthday she had just a simple carrot cake, pretty easy.   For her 2nd birthday  I made was a Backyardigans cake, nothing too spectacular but she sure did love it!

For my daughter's 3rd birthday I was 9 months pregnant with my son, and I didn't have the energy to make her a birthday cake :(   She had a store bought cake .... 5 days after my daughter's birthday I gave birth to my son, Jacob.  From there on, the tradition continued.....
    Jenavieves 4th birthday and Jacob's 1st was a princess and the frog theme ( This was before the movie came out ) . I made a castle cake, a frog prince cake, and basic princess cupcakes :)

The next year was my daughter's 5th birthday, the year she would get her first horse :) She had been asking for a horse since she was 1 1/2 yrs old, I always told her if she still wanted one when she was 5 I would get her one, and I did.  So that year her birthday cake was also a horse and my sons was a tractor!

     The tractor had a few issues, it originally came out really good. The wheels are chocolate donuts, the hay bales are rice krispie treats, the smoke stack is an oreo stick.  Originally I had a nice windshield done, and a stearing wheel but my kids decided they wanted to try the cake before the party and ran their fingers through it :(   So I had to cut off the front part of where the windshield was, use what I had left for green frosting, then I wrote my sons name on the front to try and cover up the mess....Oh well, it was about as good as I could fix it right before people starting showing up for the party...
    The following year my daughter decided she was too old, ( 6...lol ) to have a themed  birthday party with her brother..For her I made a Unicorn cake, and Jacob I made a dragon, dinosaur type cake...?

 

    Did I mention my husband's birthday is the day after my daughter's birthday, 4 days before my son's and so I make him a German chocolate cake every year as well.
    This year I have even more cakes to make, today I will be making tye dyed cupcakes to send into school tomorrow for my daughter's birthday. Then Thursday I will be making my husbands cake. I am having a big family birthday party this weekend to celebrate my kids birthdays, my niece's birthday, her boyfriend's birthday, and my nephews birthday.  For Saturday I need to make a cake for my daughter, she has requested a hello kitty cake. I will be making a cake for my son, he has requested, a scooby doo cake.  For my niece and her boyfriend I will be making a LOST cake.  Then for my nephew, I really don't know, perhaps some cup cakes of some sort.....I will post all the pics as I make them through out the week.
 It's going to be a busy week......I am a cake maker for a week :)