I posted a link to Cake Wrecks once before, but I just love this blog! To make it even better, the daily update seems to show up in my RSS feeds sometime in the afternoon Oslo-time, so the daily Wreck is often a much-needed afternoon pick-me-up. Anyhow, I felt compelled to repost today’s cake for all [...]
A few days ago, I came across a particularly entertaining blog to share: Cake Wrecks When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong. The blog is a gallery of professionally decorated cakes (and cake sculptures) that all have something fundamentally and amusingly wrong with them. In some cases, it’s the fault of the client, who requested [...]
I mentioned in the post about Lucas’s birthday that we used one of our exciting musical flower birthday candles from Beijing. In case you’ve never been privy to a demonstration of these fantastic contraptions, I will try to describe them well enough to do them justice. You start with a large blossom-shaped blob of pink [...]
Yesterday was Lucas’s birthday, so I enlisted Cassie’s help to make a Lego birthday cake. We left work and headed straight to the grocery to buy supplies. We didn’t want to put in hours making a cake from scratch, so we bought an imported cake mix for a ridiculous price ($9 - Don’t you love Norwegian prices?) and [...]
I just realized that since I left for India right at the end of January, I never made any special mention of the one-year mark! So this is a little late, but Happy Anniversary to us! I think this calls for cake! (No, I didn’t make that cake. Unless “making” a cake includes “Photoshopping” a [...]