THE CAKE

Everyone who knows us, knows that THE CAKE has become a very important part of the Triplet's birthday celebrations.  I hope I will have time later this week to find pictures to post of all 8 birthdays.  It would be fun to see them all together.

I really struggled with this years cake.......the girls were not sure exactly what they wanted.  They knew it had to be white and they really wanted flowers.  In the end, we decided to do a stacked, white cake with flowers.  HMMMMMM, sounded kind of boring.  So I searched for photos and decided what I wanted.  Well, in production phase, it didn't quite work out, BUT I'm pretty happy with the finished product.

We started a few days ahead of time making flowers.  I didn't originally plan on help from the kids, but when Alexis said, "Am I old enough now to help with my cake?" I couldn't resist.  Making the roses took 3 days because I had so many helpers.  BUT, I think they turned out amazing.  KC spent a few hours painting them with pearl dust.  We color painted a bunch of them pink, but ended up only putting white ones on the cake. 

The night before the baptism (Friday), Grandma showed up at about 9:30pm, just in time to help mom assemble the cake.  It ended up taking much longer (it always does), and the plan changed several times as we ran into construction problems. 

The best story of the evening was when KC was helping to make the fondant.  I love marshmallow fondant because it's much easier to work with than the store bought stuff and it tastes great. (That may or may not be a good thing....)  KC started the recipe and called me to kitchen a while later, it just didn't look right.   As a matter of fact it looked down right WRONG?  We started a new batch and figured out that he added 1 and 1/2 cups Crisco instead of only 1/2.  The next batch turned out perfect and we were on our way.  Rolling, and icing, rolling and icing.  When we were finally done with the basic assembly and there were many flaws.  So Grandma had the idea to put a fondant ribbon around the base of each cake.  Then we started covering it up with roses and flowers that we had made.  In the end, you could hardly tell where any of the major flaws were.  I finished late into the night and after getting everything else ready to go it was almost 5 am before I got to bed.

The next morning (Saturday), when I woke up the cake was starting to tip, one side had given out on the middle layer.  Luckily, when I took the photos, you can't see it, because it's falling toward me.  Gotta love photography!

We cut the cake on Monday for the girls friend party and it was YUMMY!  Dad always bakes the cakes for mom and this one was perfect.  We filled it with butter cream and raspberry and it stayed perfectly  moist!  Everyone needed to eat a rose, and there were plenty to go around.  Mom ate WAY too many and the scale proved it. 

All in all, a beautiful white cake fit for three beautiful girls, dressed in white on their baptism day.