Karinsmiles

My daughter and my son were born 3 year and 9 days apart. What this means is that I generally get geared up to sort out the first birthday (my daughter’s) and then I’m just breathing a sigh of relief that it’s all over when I realise I have to do it all again.

I’ve always tried to make a cake of some kind, I’m a competent baker, no more, and the cakes look very home made but they’re fun to do and I think the kids have generally appreciated them. Over the years we’ve had a bus, train, ice-cream castle, tractor, Rammstein logo, a 7-tier tower and loads of others that I can’t recall right now.

The birthdays this year are an eighteenth and a twenty-first so this might well be the last year I’ll be doing cakes and as usual I’ve been up until some stupid time in the morning to finish them and here they are.

bee cake

The bee theme is because of Hazel’s game in Dare to be Digital (a prestigious competition for games developers run by Abertay University). The game was called Pollen – you had to guide a swarm of bees to their new hive and save the queen. I played an early version of it and it was a lot of fun.

I’m especially proud of the Big Mac, which Hazel helped with (the pickles, lettuce and sesame seeds are all hers – I think they make the cake). You would think that Gordon would have had enough of MacDonalds with all the shifts he’s worked over the summer but he specifically requested it.

Big Mac cake