Saturday was Aja’s 9th birthday (how did that happen so fast??!!) and we had such a fun party that I couldn’t wait to share it with you. I never know what to do with party pics. Should I text my friends? Send a link to SmugMug? Post on Facebook? Or in this case I thought: what if someone out there wants to do a cake decorating party, why not help out and share what I learned along the way… Aja and I are obsessed with baking shows (Me: #GreatBritishBakingShow #SpringBakingChampionship #HolidayBakingChampionship #KidsBakingChampionship Her: #NailedIt #ManAboutCake #SugarRush #NerdyNummies #CakeWars #CupcakeWars) so I thought it would be fun to turn a decorating party into a baking contest. I considered Duff’s Cake Mix, but decided that I could do it for way less $$$ myself (ahem, actually, not quite). My daughter totally busted me: “Mom – there are FIFTY cans of frosting – for TEN CAKES!!!” (We went through about 35 of them) Well, you probably know by now that I don’t half-ass anything, so after testing two different cake mixes (why, I now ask myself??!) I then baked about 28 Duncan Hines (the winner) layers in total. (Remember when I used to hate box-cake-mix?) We had just as much fun planning, shopping, and setting up together. Aja personalized aprons for her girlfriends party favors, and they all signed her apron for a special keepsake. We had ten daughter-mom teams. (Some more daughter-forward, some more mom-forward 😉) The only thing I was permitted to do was pretty-much keep my daughter’s hair out of her cake. I was blown away by all of their creativity and focus. Each cake was SO beautiful and so DifFeReNT!! I added some TwIsTs so that they could customize the flavor and design. (And I didn’t have to buy TEN of every ingredient 😝) We started with a What’s your Baking IQ quiz (I know you’re dying to take it too!), and once they got the correct answer, they got to pick a twist below. The buzzers were really fun with ding-dongs and beep-beeps, but it would’ve been better if every single kid had a buzzer and we knew exactly who hit the buzzer first! But we managed to avoid any major drama and it seemed […]
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