Happy birthday to Kyla, and Lauren

As you may or may not remember, May is the start of kids birthdays in this family. So far we have had Kyla's 11th, and Lauren's 7th, and Braden will turn 9 in a couple of weeks.  I am trying to persuade Kyla that she needs to update her blog, so will leave it to her to tell you about her party and show you her cake.

We have a few birthday cake books that the kids love to look through and choose a cake idea from.  

This year, Lauren chose a particularly detailed fairy castle that involved colouring white chocolate to use to create such details as shingle roofs and wrought iron gates.  The instructions said the cake was not difficult, but was time consuming.  They were not wrong.  After simplifying the cake slightly (the original used 4 cake recipes + jam rolls) it took me a mere 3 1/2 hours to complete.  She was thrilled with it, so I guess it was all worth it, and it was kind of fun.