Birthday Baking

This year baking for Rich and Ava's birthday was a little crazy.  I made Rich a chocolate cake, Minnie Mouse cupcakes for Ava's school, and Ava's 6 layer rainbow cake.  It was a lot of work, but worth it to see the smiles on their faces.  I can't wait to see what they request next year.

Ava's favorite part of helping me make cupcakes was licking the bowl and eating leftover frosting.  She got that birthday crown on Sunday in Primary and wore it everyday, all day, until the end of her birthday on Tuesday.  She even wore it to preschool.

Ava really wanted Minnie Mouse cupcakes to take to preschool.  After searching the internet I decided to make these.  I used regular oreos for the head and mini oreos for the ears.  I made the bows using the melting candy you can find at craft stores.  I melted the candy, put it in a squeeze bottle, drew bows and top with white sprinkle balls.  Ava was happy and even helped me a little bit.

I ended up making two 2-layer cakes and dividing it into 6 layers.  I decided to use cheap disposable foil cake pans from the Dollar store, so I could bake all the layers at one time and not in batches having to wash pans in between.  The cheaper pans were also a little smaller, so it made good sized layers.

The layers were almost level.  I actually used a level to stack the layers since it was going to be so tall.  I wanted to make sure it wouldn't fall over and be a disaster.

This is the finished cake.  I was pretty happy with the way it came out.