Brody's Angry Birds 5th Birthday Party!

 

 

My cute and sweet little nephew Brody turned 5! This seems crazy to me... I remember his 1st birthday party, Totoro themed, where we spent hours making a backdrop of trees and leaves and mini felt Totoros and I sweated it out making oodles of cupcakes and a Totoro cake. I believe it was my very first fondant covered cake! I remember I was so nervous rolling the fondant and placing it over the cake, not wanting to screw up... now I can do it with such ease and confidence ... (most of the time... I still screw up!)... to those who email me with questions on how I got into cake making and whether or not I went to school for it, etc... nope... just time, practice, doing it over and over and always learning! Sucking at first but just getting better and better!

Brody really still is just like he was in his first year. Sweet and curious, big eyes and super adorable.... though now he knows so much, and loves his cars, Hot wheels track and Angry Birds! Kids can be encyclopaedic with their knowledge of things... like knowing every name of every Angry Birds character. Who knew they had names!?? Makes me wonder what my little Teddy (pictured above in the red bandana with his grandparents!) will get into? I'm kind of guessing cars too as it runs in both sides of his family. Although I'm excited to get him his own little play kitchen and maybe an easy bake oven in the future... heehee! Top Chef Baby! Or maybe I just want to play in the play kitchen. I am loving all the cute fake wooden food that's out there!

Auntie Coco Cake (me!) made Brody dark chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream, and a special Angry Birds "Terrence" cake just for him. Brody had a great time at his party - romping around with his cousins and little friends in the play gym, then sitting around a big table snacking away and colouring his Angry Birds colouring sheet. His friend Callum leaned over to him, holding up a veggie chip and said "Brody, I like your fries!" And Brody picked up one of his slim vegetable chips, looked at it and crunched into it, smiling, as happy as can be. CUTE! 

Happy 5th Birthday BroBro! 

Love you lots! xo Auntie Lynshee

Pig Man Of Alcatraz

Have you ever seen Clint Eastwood in Escape From Alcatraz? It's a real winner.

This King Pig cake - I'm not so sure he could stealthily and sneakily escape from one of the most notorious prisons in the world the way that Clint Eastwood did in the film. King Pig might bumble around and crash into things, and surely his oinking and snorting would give away his position. However, those pigs have managed to continuously steal egg after egg from some super mad, super Angry Birds so maybe they are smarter than I give them credit for! Yes, I'm just assuming many of you know that terribly addictive and hilarious little video game...

This cake was a 7 inch round chocolate cake with peppermint buttercream, ordered by Vanessa for her husband's Steve's birthday. Vanessa also requested two little angry birds on top of the cake ... those little birds are totally pestering that big old green pig!

Thanks Vanessa for the fun order!

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Angry Birds Cake!

Too hilarious. I loved the little cutie who ordered this too. Showed up all styled out, in an Angry Birds tshirt! A bunch of friends ordering it for their friend's 18th birthday... ahhhhdorable!!

Dark chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream, fondant decorations. Thanks Chino for the fun order! ^__^

And cahmannn, who else out there is hopelessly addicted to this hilarious game!? Everything about it draws you in like crack cocaine - the whistle of the zooming birds, the crash and crackle of shattered ice and broken wood, the snort and chortle of those EVIL GREEDY GREEN PIGS!!! MUST BLAST INTO THEM AND DESTROY THEM!

I think my favourite bird is the HUGE fat red one that lethargically crashes into stuff like a slow, bloated wrecking ball...