Birthday Month is Over

March is finally here! That means the dreaded birthday month of February is over. What do you do when you have birthdays 3 out of 4 weekends, and the ages to celebrate are: 1, 3 and 38? You bake en masse. And you suddenly start experimenting with food coloring. Not to mention fancy cake decorating!

I've baked for years and years, and stuck to fairly simple frosting of cakes. But now that I've got kids, I got inspired. So here's a look at what I did. There's plenty of room for improvement!

1-year-old

Apple cake for the birthday child, followed by chocolate cake for the guests (no photos, sorry).

3-year-old

3 years old and 3 parties: Help!

Party 1: "Sun cake" (butter cake), apple cake, Belgian waffles (Brussels style) and buns.

Party 2: Winnie-the-Pooh chocolate cake, chocolate cupcakes, yellow cupcakes and buns.

Party 3: Sent a batch of Norwegian "sveler" to the child's nursery (no photos).


38-year-old:

Chocolate cake and sour-cream cake with Oreo pieces. Then we suddenly remembered that one of our guests is allergic to chocolate, so we had to quickly whip up an apple cake (no photo).








CONCLUSION:
It was all doable, but I need to practice cake decorating before next February comes around. Maybe get to know Wilton better...