CELEBRATORY CAKES
A 40 th birthday cake for my eldest daughter. I was a little slow getting my camera out to take a picture of it! Four years earlier she had carrot cake cupcakes – carrot cake being her favorite. Thirty-eight years earlier she had her famous Pooh Bear cake. Her sister had a fancy-lookin’ cake for her 26 th birthday. And here’s the sister’s son with his cousins and older sister critiquing his 3 rd birthday cake featuring a hot race car scenario. Of course it wasn’t long before the car was off the cake and being played with! On his sister’s third birthday she had a “Barbie” princess cake. My Mom’s birthday always fell around Mother’s Day and sometimes on Mother’s Day as was the case for this combo Mother’s Day/Mom’s birthday cake in 2002 – her 84 th birthday. That same year someone brought a flourless chocolate cake to the celebration as well. Talk about “death by chocolate”. I’ve never tasted anything so decadent in my life! Dense pure chocolate al...