Caked out! Happy Birthday Blondie!

My little Sister is turning 20 today (!!! . . . whatever, your a baby still Blondie! . . . she's the only blond in the fam . . . hence Blondie . . . moving on . . . ) So I happily volunteered to make her a cake . . . I have been up since 7:30 baking and decorating but I am pretty darn happy with the end result!!!

Today was a good example of the mishaps that occur when I make cakes . . . oh the things that we learn! Lesson 1 . . . just because it sounds/looks easy in a cake book does not mean that it will be easy to make! But every experience teaches us something so today I learned much!

Lesson 2 . . . working with melting chocolate leaves me and everything in my kitchen chocolate coated . . . Lesson 3, cans of air now have a lovely bitter taste added to them to prevent people from huffing (did not know that) hence when I was being brilliant and following the example of the food network chefs utilizing canned air to cool my chocolate . . . I was actually flavoring it with a lovely bitter taste! Thank heavens I didn't do all of the chocolate at once . . . but a few people may not love the taste of the dark chocolate on their butterflies! (By the way the can did say it is safe if you ingest it . . . but utterly nasty tasting! Calm down . . . I got rid of most of it! ;)

I couldn't find anything in my kitchen either so, innovative me used a mixing bowl instead of my turn table to decorate the cake on . . . and I used gummy bears under the butterfly wings to give them lift since everything else I placed under them moved and made wings flat!

The cake turned out super yum-e! (thanks everyone for your brilliant ideas!) I used a chocolate bundt cake recipe that had chocolate chips, sour cream and pudding in it for both the cake and the cupcakes. They turned out moist, a bit denser than box mix cupcakes and just a delight! We'll see what the birthday girl thinks about her cake! Alright I am off to de-chocolatize myself! Happy Birthday Ami! (Love you lady!)

Oop and here is the Birthday girl herself . . . wearing the kickin' scarf we gave her! Hot pink fits her personality! Look at those baby blues too! Ami you are awesome! It was a great party!