Tomorrow our daughters are celebrating their 7th birthday with a party at Ajax Amusements. They’re looking forward to it, some of their parents are looking forward to it, some of our friends are looking forward to it and we are too. While I do occasionally enjoy setting up games and such, this year we’ve got *gasp* boys at the party and doing all girly-type stuff just won’t do! It turns out that I also occasionally enjoy just having to show up with cake, plates-et-all and goodie bags and leaving the rest to others.

Sooooo, this year I decided that I’d make the cake. Not from a box… from scratch. I can pick out a boxed cake in a single nibble and they just aren’t what I grew up with. Icing is the same thing. So, aside from the bit of chocolate icing I used, the cake and icing is all home made.

Lots of thank you hugs to Kat for coming over today to help with the decoration and assembly!

Here’s the cake (click right)… and it’s all based on the game Candyland. The idea was not mine, we saw it in a cooking magazine while at our stitching weekend in WVa.

The pathway is Starbursts, with a Halloween forest, then a forest of Twizzlers topped with Kissables, then a sea of mini marshmallows, followed by a gumdrop forest, a fruit rollup walkway outlined in yellow Dots, a forest of Dum Dums, then a mud bog of peanut butter cups covered in chocolate fudge icing and then finally you make it to the ice cream cone castle complete with a blue rock candy moat! Aside from the sticks in the lollipops, everything else on and in the cake is edible. Here’s hoping that we get it to the party in one piece!

Happy Birthday, my little darlings! *smoochies*