Well, we had Claire's ninth birthday. Her daddy was out of town that day, a Tuesday, but our friends the Wolfs were staying over (which happened a couple times this summer and which we loved the most). So, she actually had a week-long birthday extravaganza. My brother-in-law Jared would tell you that is not any different from a regular Grover birthday, but whatev. On her actual-factual birthday, Claire chose all the places we ate. I believe it was donuts for breakfast and McDonald's AT the pool for lunch, and Chili's for dinner. Then when her daddy got home the next day, she chose Cheddar's for another celebratory dinner. Then on Sunday we had her family party at Mom's and Dad's, so more birthday. She wanted a My Little Pony cake. I picked a fabulous rainbow design with rainbow colored layers. It was a massive fail of epic proportions. Although she said it would be fine and would probably taste better than it looked (thanks, babe), I didn't feel ok about it at all. So, I left a huge mess in my parents' kitchen (they were out of town) and went home to sleep off the anger and disappointment I felt. I got up early the next morning to bake a much less adventurous cake. Then I went to my folks early before the party to clean up, but GUESS WHAT: Whittney and Jon had already cleaned the whole thing!!!! I was ridiculously grateful. So, I made subpar frosting and let Claire and her siblings decorate the plain old 13x9 cake themselves with M&Ms and tiny My Little Pony figures.
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| Cake Fail. This was supposed to be a half-round cake standing on it's cut edge, you know, like a rainbow. And the ponies were all along the top. But then it slumped. And slumped and slumped. And ran off the edges of the plate. And the ponies slid down down down. It was a disaster. And after all the time I spent making seven different rainbow cake layers. Including indigo. INDIGO, PEOPLE! |
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| Here is the plain vanilla cake in a pan that these kids decorated with rainbow colored M&Ms. You can see how much more they prefer this particular version. I'll try to do better next year, Claire :( |
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That didn't stop us from eating that first cake and it was delicious! Cake fails will always remind me of me calling home sobbing about Madison's 2 year birthday cake and Papaw coming over and piecing it all back together with icing. I miss him so much.
Me too. I think he may have just laughed at this cake, though.
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