Kid Agreed!

Well I feel accomplished. I got the kid to agree that I can post her pictures and whatnot when she starts baking and stuff. I actually suggested that she create her own blog but she told me that she'd no good with blogs. So I told her that she could send me the pictures of what she wants to make and what she actually does make. I tried to find a picture of the cake she wants to make for her father's next birthday, but I can't. She was talking about an episode of Cake Boss where they did a fire truck with lights that actually worked and how she wants to do that as an ambulance, since my husband is an EMT. 

But a little bit closer to the natural time line here, will be the six year old's next birthday. K3 has given us many ideas about what the birthday cake should be. I however, am not all that enamored with making a cake and then layering it with donuts and cans of side. I am thinking more along the lines of this:

Candy-Land-Cake

I actually have the recipe for this in one of the ToH magazines that my mother saved for us. It was a kid's edition that had tons of snack ideas as well as cake and dessert recipes. Since the diabetic cake was a hit with everyone, I figured this one can't really go wrong either.

Bring Your Own Insulin Birthday Cake

So when it came time to do the actual cake, I discovered that the kids were using my round cake pans for other things. I decided to just go ahead and use square pans. Not the greatest idea, since the kit kats were of a mind to fall away more easily. The ribbon I put on it helped, but all the candy wanted to run amok as well.

Since we really liked the idea of a candyland theme with the amount of sweets going into everything, that's how the cake got done up, with no M&M's. Put together, it was a devil's food cake, two layers, with Nutella as the internal frosting filler. I used fudge frosting on the top and sides. 11 kitkat bars to surround it. The topping decorations consisted of rainbow Nerds, Sixlet candies, chocolate chip cookie dough bites covered in chocolate, sour patch kids and rainbow Twizzlers.

So needless to say, the kids loved it absolutely. My brother even whined until I agreed to put a piece in the freezer for him to give to him the next time we could.

Cheesecake Bar

Okay, so I found this recipe in one of my cookbooks for cheesecake bars. Nothing elaborate, just a crust, cheesecake filling and crumb topping. Well, the eldest wanted cheesecake for her birthday and I was happy to oblige. But instead of making 5 or 6 different flavors of cheesecake, I decided to make up the cheesecake bars and then add the toppings as to people's choices. Hence a cheesecake bar. We've got strawberry, hot fudge, butterscotch, caramel, pineapple sauces, whipped cream, nuts, bananas, all varieties of candy chips, heath bars, kit kat bars, butterfinger bars. Oh my goodness, we're going to have cheesecake coming out our, well you know!

And that's not to mention the day long smorgasbord we're planning. I got a wonderful 3 set slow cooker with independent controls, so we're doing J-Mexi Dip, little weiners in bbq sauce and cola chicken drumies that need to stay warm. Several dips with crackers and veggies. There's be eggrolls, crab rangoons, pizza rolls, a shrimp ring, pigs in blankets, shrimp pinwheels, the list is huge. I can't wait to get some pictures up!