So, I’d prefer to be more humble, but sometimes I am just so excited about what I did that I have to share.
I hope that you appreciate the fact that I am not a cake decorator and that I am not meticulous when I cook or bake. So this large confectionery/baking endeavor was a labor of true love from me to my 5 year old son. {And I employed the much over-exploited loyalty of my best cheese-arranging* friend, Stephanie, to keep me on task and finish the [email protected]$^able thing before dinnertime.}
*Cheese-arranging, you ask. (adj.) Yes. It’s an adjective of endearment that I have used to describe the wonderfully OCD quality that would make someone artfully arrange the cheese on a grilled cheese sandwich so as to have no cheese overlap nor overflow. It’s opposite would describe me. I have no desire nor skill to prevent the cheese from either overlapping nor overflowing. Dare I say that I prefer overlap AND overflow. But, I love everything about Stephanie. So, I will raise a glass now (even though it may be 10am) to her “disorder” (yes, pun is intended)!
Enjoy, Hedwig!
{to also be noted, the Harry Potter craze has taken over my children since our trip to Universal in March.)
Here is a detail of the finished work. Mon chef d’oeuvre!
Assembly of the pieces. I made a chocolate cake and a butter pecan one. Both moist and yummy combined with the homemade butter cream frosting.
Crumb coating.
Doodles from iheartfaces.com
Almost done.
They can’t wait.
Ahhh. The candles. Happy Birthday, C-note!