2 cakes this week

This week was a busy week for me. I had two cakes to do this week. The first was for my foster care agencies thank you dinner for foster parent appreciation month. The cake was huge and weighed over 50lbs.  The best part of the cake was the cookie and cream filling. Too bad I am on a diet. I think I could have ate a bowl full of the filling alone.

The second cake was for a brother and sister joint birthday party. The brother was turning 3 and the sister was turning 3. We went with one cake for the joint party 1/2 was star wars and the other 1/2 was princess. I have a lot of experience with joint cakes since I have six kids and we have 3 pairs of kids with close birthdays so we have 3 joint parties a year. I always try to make the kids feel special that their cake fits them. Many times I do one cake. Another thing great about the birthday cake was that my 4 year old loves star wars and my 2 year old loves princesses. I almost felt like I was making this cake for them. My little one LOVED the cake and had a hard time seeing it leaving our house to be delivered.  I hope that Emily and Zachary love the cake as much as my kids did. The birthday cake was made with French Vanilla cake and butter cream frosting. The neat thing is I dyed the batter to the kids favorite colors. So 1/2 is blue cake with blue frosting and the 1/2 is pink cake with pink frosting. On the Star wars half I made R2D2 out of rice krispie treats and the other half I made a princess out of french vanilla cake.

This picture was taken before I did touch ups this morning. The R2D2 did not like the humidity!