Making Cakes

Tonight we are going to a Halloween Party at First Lutheran Church. First Lutheran Church is the church in Bismarck where Jay serves as an Associate Youth Pastor. We figure since we're not too familiar with the area and we don't really know many people that we will bypass the Trick or Treating tomorrow night so to have fun we want to take the kids to the party, plus Jay needs to be there.

Evidently they were costumes, play games and have a cake walk. So I thought I would make a cake for the cake walk. Well, then the girls decided they wanted to make cakes too.

I have a whole lot of Halloween clippings from various magazines over the years, so I pulled them out and Mackenzie found a cute mummy head cake from Women's World issue 10/20/2008. So we baked off the cakes the day before and then yesterday we spent time decorating.

Here is Mackenzie working on her cake . . .




She is making the icing which is butter, marshmallow fluff and powder sugar. YUM!!



Then she used some of the cake icing tips to make the bandage strips on the mummy head.



After she added all the gummy worms and facial features, she was ready for a picture with her cake. She did a very nice job!!



Cassie picked out a cake from the Wilton 2006 Cake Decorating Yearbook - she took one cake class with me in Ohio so she wanted to do a more complicated cake.



She picked a cake that required her to use a star-tip, so she spent almost two hours just covering the spider's body.



Then I helped her crumb coat the head and attach it so she could finish star tip covering the head, too.





Unfortunately, while trying to get under the back side of the head, I apparently smudged some of the body's black stripe, but she fixed it.





This morning, before school started, she put together the legs and added the facial features.



Here she is with her final project. She did a very nice job!!