Well, this weekend, I made 2 different cakes. For Saturday, I made a cake for my friend’s son. He carries around a little Lego figure and she wanted to surprise him with that character on his birthday cake. I had made a cake with Lego figures on it before for my son, so I told her it wouldn’t be a problem. As moms, we don’t know too much about Lego Star Wars. We’ve seen the old movies, but Lego men don’t really look that much like the characters from the movie. So, as we were talking about it, we called him Anakin. Come to find out (from our boys, of course) it was really Obi Wan.

This is the cake I made for the birthday party on Saturday.

I usually decorate cakes when it’s someone’s birthday or a special occasion, so I never want to experiment and try new things then because I don’t want to mess something up and have to start over (with a deadline). After the birthday party on Saturday, I was in a decorating mood and came home and made a “sampler” cake. I used all different decorating tips in order to make many flowers. It was nice to be able to practice and not worry what it looked like! I also don’t do flowers very often with 2 boys and a man in the house. I don’t make birthday cakes for myself, so most of the cakes I decorate are “manly” or “childish.”

Here is a picture of my crazy sampler “just-for-fun” cake.

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