Twelve hours from now we'll have friends and family gathered to celebrate Miss Kennedy Grace turning four years old (today we celebrated my dad, Papa Jeff turning 55!). Honestly, I don't know how these four years have come and gone so quickly - I still have four days left until it's official, though. Yes, so stereotypical but it's the absolute truth.
This evening after the devastating loss Michigan suffered, Kennedy and I started to get her birthday cake in order. Initially she told me that she would like to have a Hello Kitty cake for her party; the theme of which she selected as 'dot', which I translated to polka dots and then poorly executed in the end. Well, it hasn't fully been executed yet, but I have an idea. Bad mom point #1, when I ordered her '4' shirt for the party, I inadvertently had it shipped to our old address. Since the address is forwarded via the USPS the package didn't get delivered today. It will promptly arrive on our doorstep Monday morning. Just in time to be one day late for her party!
ANYHOO, back to cake making. I picked out some ideas from Pinterest that I thought I could pull off and let her make the ultimate decision. We ended up picking an unfrosted edge cake. Less sugar inhalation?! Let's roll with it!
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| Unfrosted Edge Funfetti Cake |
One of the main reasons I was excited to try this out was because I am not 100% used to the oven at our new house, and so far I have over cooked almost everything I have put in the damn thing, and if I burned the crust of the cake no one would know since it's gettin' peeled of anyways!
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| October 17, 2015: boxed Funfetti and 'canned' cream cheese frosting. No special tips and tricks or family recipes to be found in this post. |
Hooray! We're well on our way to make a delicious three layered Funfetti cake! Little did we know that trouble was lurking right around the corner.
Guys, no sooner than putting two cake pans in the oven did Piper choose to make a huge mess. A huge mess of macaroni on the floor? No, but that's what I would have expected and that's why I was cautious getting her out of her high chair. Here I was expecting a sticky face and hands with noodles hanging onto her clothes. Instead I was faced with a baby who had poop creeping up her back. Daaaammmmmmnittttttt.
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| Emergency bath in the kitchen? 120% necessary. |
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| I tried to be courteous and blur out the affected area. |
I could not believe it. OF COURSE this would happen precisely at this moment. Brendon and I tag teamed the situation though, and had a clean baby in under ten minutes. A clean baby who in no way alerted to us that she had even pooped in her diaper, let alone exploded out of it, and proceeded to laugh and giggle through her entire hosing off.
After the poop fiasco, it was just about time to get the first two cake pans out of the oven and prepare a third. Bad mom point #2, the first two cakes did get burnt on the crust so, thank you Universe for Kennedy's selected cake idea. Once the third pan was out of the oven, and all three were steady cooling it was time to get Kennedy in the tub and send both of them off to sleepy town. Now all three layers are cooled, cut, and frosted; more to come on that in the 'it's a 4th birthday party' post because frankly I have exerted all the extra energy I had preparing the pasta salad while I dumped sprinkles on the top of the cake with the finesse of a.. well, four year old. I should have just let Kennedy stay up late to finish it for me.
*tooting party horn emoji*
Leia
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