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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Birthday Cakes

Cerah made our birthday cakes again this year. The theme this time around was our favorite movies. My favorite is Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium and Robbie's favorite are the Indiana Jones series. She was pretty ambitious as she hasn't really learned how to make characters or any other items so pretty much everything on our cakes was trial and error but I think they turned out pretty good for her first attempt.

Unless you've seen my movie you probably won't get most of these decorations but she incorporated them from different scenes that were important to the movie.


I didn't want fondant for my frosting so that made it a bit more difficult to decorate.


This represents a doll from the movie. It looks pretty good to me.


My favorite quote from the movie


How she managed to make the keyboard stick to the side of the cake is a mystery to me.


These are shoes in case you are wondering. They are central to the storyline.



For Rob's cake she incorporated different scenes from all the movies.


We decided to make the snake the largest part of the cake since there's always one in every movie.



On the side of the cake is the map that always shows up when Indiana Jones is traveling. She also added some bones since he's an archaeologist.


She had some trouble with the fondant cracking. No matter how many times she made it, it cracked every time it was put on the cake. I think the temperature had a lot to do with it.


But, all in all, her dad loved it.