A FIRST for baby ...and me!

I recently got married...and with that came two nephews (who were unofficially nephews to begin with but I digress.) Way back when I was just the "girlfriend" and no one's "Aunt M"...Nick was turning ONE and I had offered/been asked to make his first cake! A total honor!


You haven't fed a family until you've fed Nick's family! I took the job seriously and made a full sheet cake...TWO layers, filled with a TON of cannoli cream and iced with a tinted buttercream. I figured a one-year-old would like a toy-box themed cake, with blocks that spelled out his name. SO that's what I designed. The wood-grain was edible sugar dough, and all the toy appliques were also edible. The blocks were tiny individual cakes that Nick could smoosh one with his hands without ruining the whole cake! By the way, the cake weighed like 30 pounds...and I'm pretty sure they all finished it within a few days! Haha!

This cake predates any formal training, but Nick seemed to like it!