Night Baking

I'm baking birthday cake tonight. I'll have to wrap up the layers and put them in the runcible bin. Hopefully in the morning I'll have some decorating ideas. We take our cakes very seriously around here - sometimes buying them at the bakery, and sometimes whipping them up ourselves. Above is a Katamari Damacy cake, skillfully put together by the young Lears, probably my favorite.

To the left is a Noguchi-esque Star Trek cake that Masse's put together from some images in the Star Trek Technical Manual. I think adding fire to any dessert makes it ten times better.

To the right are flowerpot cakes from an old Martha Stewart. We substituted shortbread crumbs to give them a sandy look and used rosemary sprigs from our yard. These pots are a little larger than those used in the original. I will have to try to throw some very tiny seedling pots - like those fancy French ones. Imagine a dessert table set up with all different sized pots with saucers beneath them - and one of those beautiful ceramic watering cans for the lemonade (another item for pottery class!)

We also used an old Martha for this garden cake. The vegetables are made from almond paste and the lettuces from pistachio paste. The Playmobil gardner here is horrified to find half his garden sliced away.