Pizza Pie?

My baby is six years old. How did this happen?! He's no longer just a one hander. He now has to hold up both hands to show people how old he is. *sigh*

He's cute isn't he? I may be a little biased. Just a tad. ;-) This picture was taken by a friend of ours who happens to be starting up a photography business. If you're interested you can find her here. Thanks Rachel for the awesome pictures!

For his birthday he wanted to have a chef party. He wants to be a chef with his own restaurant when he grows up. So we went to this great little place called Young Chef's Academy where he got to have a pizza party! The kiddos each got to make their own personal sized pizza then at the end of the party they got to eat it! The chef in charge of our party did a fantastic job of including all the kids and really explaining each process. The best part, though, was the way they took care of everything! Everything! The only thing I had to worry about was the cake.

You can't have a pizza party with out a pizza cake, right? Right! So, I scoured the internet for pizza shaped cake recipes. I didn't find too many, but what I found was enough. I combined several ideas and came up with this.

Looks like a deep dish pizza to me! It's a lemon sponge pie. And when you cut into it, it really looks like it's filled with cheese.

This was my trial cake. I couldn't wait to cut into it and have a taste which is why it's a little lopsided in the picture. It really needs to sit in the fridge for a few hours to set up properly. But it was oh so good! The top is similar to a lemon cake while the center is more of a custard consistency. Yum-Oh! If anyone is interested I can put up the recipe. :-)

Birthdays and Rambling

I know, I know, I said I would post once a week and here it is the next day and I'm posting again. There are two reasons I'm posting.

First...it's my middle son's birthday!! HAPPY SIXTH!! He woke up this morning and was absolutely positively convinced that since he is now six, he is now taller and heavier. Hubby and I didn't try to convince him otherwise. It makes perfect six year old sense. He is now an entire year older, therefore, he is an entire year bigger. Right?!

He wanted a Sonic the Hedgehog party this year so I've spent the last few weeks scouring the internet for Sonic party supplies. I found a balloon. And that's it. I did happen to see icing sheets on ebay and luckily they did have a Sonic sheet. It worked amazingly! You bake the cake, frost it with buttercream (yum-oh) and then lay this thin sheet of compressed frosting on top.I'm not the best with straight lines, but I think the cake came out pretty good! I thought I was saved. I had, after all produced the coveted Sonic Birthday Cake. But no. He informed me he wants cupcakes for his class...with Sonic cupcake toppers. So I reached inside and found my inner craftiness and came up with these.

I made them from Shrinky Dink sheets. Gotta love Shrinky Dinks!

I sent them with a key ring and a lanyard hook so the kids could use them as zipper pulls.

So, chalk one up for good ole mom!

They turned out better than I had expected.



The second reason I'm posting today is an email I got from my sister-n-law. Since I did actually start this blog to record my path to becoming a published author (crosses fingers) I thought I would share what my sis-n-law thought about my mss. She said she loved it, that she had to stay up late because she couldn't put it down and just had to finish it!

Keep in mind, I've never written anything before. I've never had the desire to put my day dreams down on paper, so when someone that I trust truly enjoys what I've written...it's just...very cool! :D

I guess that's all of my random rambling for today!