If there was an award for the worst blogger of all time, I would probably get it. I’ve been so busy with work after a re-org that my writing has fallen aside a little. Fortunately, I’ve still been baking, reviewing bakeries and keeping it real. I’ve also developed an addiction for Fro-Yo. What is it about self-serve frozen yogurt that gets people going? Not to mention the ability to pour on the jimmies (sprinkles) until you can’t even see the fro-yo beneath only to have the high schooler at the register look at you judgingly? Anywho, let’s talk baking! One of my favorite days of the year is my birthday – if you know me and you’re reading this, you should know that! Nine years ago on my birthday, my adorable sister did the unthinkable to steal my birthday thunder by having a child. My nephew Braden was born and the entire family rejoiced in the hilarity that is having to share a birthday when all you live for is your birthday. Incidentally, when Braden was old enough to understand that we “share” a birthday, he was none too pleased about it either. In the years that followed “the birth” I have come to terms with the fact that a kid’s birthday always takes some sort of precedence. So, as is the case, for many family birthday parties, I am the baker of choice for the cake!
Braden is a huge video game fan. He has all sorts of game devices: a Wii, a Nintendo 3DS , an iPod touch pretty much devoted to game playing. And through all of the amazing graphics and animations that are available for these systems, I was thrilled to find out that he is a huge PacMan fan. I mean, what child of the 80’s didn’t love Pacman? I still recall learning the ‘greater than’ and ‘less than’ signs in elementary school by drawing a little Pac man symbol around them and reasoning that Pacman would eat in the direction of more little dots. Well it turns out that Pac man is now all souped up with some amazing graphics and faster moving ghosts and now he even moves in other directions besides right angles. (How much math did we learn from PacMan?!) So when Braden said he wanted Pac Man for his cake, how could I do anything but a round cake with a chunk cut out?! But any idiot could do that. And this idiot did….. but PacMan is not a one man show. He would have nothing if not for Inky, Winky, Pinky and Clyde – the famed “Ghosts”! so It seemed like the perfect time to break out the air brush machine.
I made a combo of vanilla and chocolate cupcakes – just a standard recipe for each and then covered them with an drape of fondant which I airbrushed to the appropriate bright colors. Then a dollop of white chocolate for the eyes and how CUTE did these turn out! I’m totally in love with them. Without having kids of my own, I rarely get to experience the thrill of having other moms be completely jealous of what you made for your kids’ party. Eat your hearts out moms!
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