Unicorn Cake

Ok, I get a ton of hits for people searching for "Unicorn Cake". I just realized today I posted a before picture but never an "after" one. So for all those people who have come here looking for ideas and such, I apologize. Allow me to rectify that right now.

Here was the concept pictures I drew:



And here is the finished result:


I didn't bake this cake. I commissioned Baskin Robbins instead. It's strawberry ice cream with vanilla cake. The girl there is amazing and has done cakes for all of my children at some point.

So there you go, I hope for anyone that searches in the future, or has searched previous, this shows you how it came out.

Cake!

Since there is a no fever for 24 hours rule at Arwen's school, she is home with me again today. She's feeling better though and helped me make another cake.

She's titled this one, "Birthday Cake Chocolate Surprise". Although I have no clue who's birthday it's supposed to be. She's getting really good at helping me bake. She's also getting better at scraping all that extra icing out to eat!

Hurry Home Daddy

Hurry Home Daddy! We made this for you (ok Mommy helped a little). It's your favorite! Carrot Cake!!

But make it fast, we didn't just want to make it, we wanted to eat it too and that icing won't last long!

Hidden Guilty Pleasure

The first time I saw Iron Chef I was visiting my Dad for the weekend. I remember asking my Dad, "what are you watching??" and ribbing him pretty hard for it. Nevertheless, I sat down and watched with him. I've been hooked ever since.

It's an acquired taste but I think people are drawn to the cheesy humor and layout of the show. Instead of subtitles the hosts and guests (and cooks, everyone but the chairman) are dubbed. This effect causes instant hilarity. My Dad and I got a kick from the off the wall comments, it cracked us up. Another aspect, at least for me and Dad, is watching in awe as people ate food that looked like waste. We'd try not to gag as the tasters got all excited about how delicious a dish was.

I recently tried to get into the new Iron Chef America and it's just not the same. I barely got through one episode. It lacks the charm of the original. But sometimes I get lucky and I catch an old episode on the tube. Even better is when I find one on Youtube I haven't seen yet.