Ugly Cake

So Anna and I worked hard on Jonathan's Ugly Cake while he was at school yesterday. The Ugly Cake started when I made Dave a chocolate fudge cake with caramel frosting, and it was a horrid looking disaster. The layers fell apart and I tried to reassemble them, and then I tried to hold everything together with lots of extra frosting. My pride was a little hurt, and my sweet, sensitive Jonathan picked up on my sulkiness and kept commenting, Mama, this is the best cake ever! Mmmm! I want Ugly Cake for MY birthday, OK?

So I tried to recreate the Ugly Cake yesterday, along with his favorite dinner, chicken and dumplings. When we were close to being finished, Anna looked at the cake and said, "Oh. It looks... good." She wrinkled her little nose up and said, "It really doesn't look ugly enough." She was right. It helped when the two of them picked half of the frosting off of one side of it. That uglied it up a little. Tomorrow night we are going away to go to Downtown Disney (Lego store!) and Sea World. Then he has his birthday party on the 25th. I am making a Star Wars cake. (I won't be making my own fondant from scratch, mind you, like some other crazy lady I know... ;)

We have a Darth Vader pinata, and Dave got the idea to use lightsabers to hit it with. It is going to be a great birthday party. Hopefully... I love how his birthday always blends into Halloween and Anna's blends into Christmas. It makes the whole month special.