Megan's Birthday Cake

I'm sure you've heard the sayings before -- the carpenter's house is never finished -- the cobblers kids have no shoes -- etc.  In years past, I have always taken additional cake orders the week of my children's birthdays.  The problem with that - as I ran out of time during the week - it was always my kids cakes that I made the adjustments on and started cutting details in order to make my cake deadlines for my "paying customers".  I realized it wasn't fair to my kids and every year would say I wouldn't take any other cakes during my child's birthday next year!  

Well, this year I honored that!  

This was Megan's 9th Birthday Cake!!  We invited 10 girls over for a sleepover and would you believe that ALL 10 GIRLS were able to attend!!  Megan and I started on Saturday working on details because I knew with all the gobs I have to bake each week my time would be limited later on to work on the details.  

I posted the finished cake on my Facebook page (click here for link) but thought I would show some of the details that you might have missed from the larger photo.

First off, Megan helped with A LOT of the cake details.  She made the pizza's herself (including the pieces of pepperoni and green peppers), she made a good bit of the girl's hair, the popcorn bowl with popcorn and helped with the faces!  Mind you -- she just turned 9!  I may have a helper in a few years.

Anyway... here are some cake photos!  I hope you enjoy this project as much as I ENJOYED doing it with her :-)

The entire cake from a distance.

---

The girl's on the bottom of the bed.  One has fallen asleep, one is excited to be here and the last one is eating an ice cream cone in bed.

---

These are close-ups of the girls at the top of the bed.  Some have fallen asleep and the others are tucked in, but still awake.

---

The girls in their sleeping bags on the carpet.  One is eating a bag of chips, one took her slippers off to paint her finger and toe nails and the last one is reading a book and eating a bowl of popcorn.

---

Megan with her cake - before we cut it!