Birthday cakes – 2021-2022

It’s been a while since I blogged about birthday cakes! In fact we’ve had 8 birthdays since then, so here are all the cakes that the children all asked for…

Andrew’s 10th birthday

He has always been into science and maths. He’d been learning some complicated chemistry with my parents online over lockdowns, and his job was to work out what this molecule is (TNT!). The jelly babies and strawberry straws made up some DNA and RNA. He doesn’t like fondant icing, so all his cakes now have buttercream – vanilla is how he likes it.

Samuel and Naomi’s 4th birthday

They were very much into Numberblocks around the time of their birthday, and I saw this as an opportunity to do another separate-but-combined cake. After all, 2 + 2 = 4!

Joel’s 9th birthday

This was the year that his video games fandom took off. Minecraft was the first one he got into, and I was pleased to do a square cake, as it was pretty easy, if time-consuming cutting all the small squares of fondant.

Andrew’s 11th birthday

He asked for a strawberry laces cake…. and he got strawberry laces on steroids! I grabbed any (fake-)strawberry flavoured sweets that I could find in the supermarket, and threw them onto a buttercream (of course) iced cake.

Samuel and Naomi’s 5th birthday

By this age, they were starting to assert their differences quite dramatically. They couldn’t agree on one theme for a party, so, with some discussion with Granny and Grandad, they came up with a Bitz and Bob plus Minecraft mash-up! It was an interesting party, and the first time they had two completely different cakes – I’ve always done two cakes, but usually two of a pair. The pink cake looked just like one from the cake episode of Bitz and Bob, and the Minecraft one was like I’d done previously for Joel (Samuel wants to do anything that Joel is into; he really looks up to him).

Joel’s 10th birthday

After the video games phase started, along came the Pokemon phase too. I was more than happy to do this “Great Ball” that he asked for, as it’s an easy round shape with not much decoration needed. Inside was a marble cake, but I forgot to get a picture of that!