CELEBRATORY CAKES

 


A 40th 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 26th birthday.

And here’s the sister’s son with his cousins and older sister critiquing his 3rd 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 84th 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 all the way through.

Speaking of Moms – here was a cake for my youngest daughter’s baby shower when she was expecting her second child.

And speaking of showers, this clever cake was for a friend’s wedding shower.

Wedding showers lead to weddings and wedding cakes.  Here my Mom & Dad – well actually, my Mom – is cutting their wedding cake in 1939 with Dad looking on.

Twenty-nine years later my husband and I are cutting our wedding cake.

Twenty-six years after that our son and his wife cut their wedding cake.

And two years later our youngest daughter and her husband prepare to cut their wedding cake.  The tiers were white cake with rum-flavored filling, the two lower were chocolate cake with chocolate filling.  Either way – yum!  I made the adorning flower pieces and the top of their cake was the top from my husband’s and my wedding cake redone to match the rest of their cake. J

Here we have an Easter cake decorated with jellybeans and fluffy marshmallow ‘peeps’.  The kids got a kick out of this one.  They ate the ‘peeps’ & jellybeans!  Who cared about the cake part.

For Christmas one of my husband’s cousins liked to make Christmas logs for the family’s Christmas dinner dessert.

And then there was my Grandma Louise’s fruitcake!  These were fruitcakes no one made fun of.  She began making them two months before Christmas.  Plenty of brandy went into the cake itself, and then they were wrapped in rum-soaked cheesecloth and placed in a cake tin for a while to be opened, rewrapped in newly rum-soaked cheesecloth and tinned back up again until Christmas.   Obviously, children were only allowed a tiny bite.  Adults, after a couple of pieces, usually had a pretty good buzz going!  As my cousin liked to joke – you could get drunk on the fumes alone.

:->

La Nightingail



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  1. Barbara RogersDecember 7, 2024 at 6:57 AM

    What fun cakes...you always come up with a link to the theme of the week! I laughed at a couple, but wish someone had shared a fruitcake like that one. The ones I've been given were not infused but were dry...perhaps I was supposed to do the soaking!

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  2. Mike BrubakerDecember 8, 2024 at 6:08 PM

    Wonderful! I counted 17 cakes (including cupcakes) and I bet you have many more that got left out in the rain and didn't make the cut! I like the high octane fruit cake as it sounds like the plum pudding my wife, who is English, makes. Best eaten on a cold wet winter evening sitting by a fire.

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