lisa may never have another birthday. she's twenty-four and holding. no, no, she's not terminally ill. why would i blog about that? she just doesn't want to get old, and who can blame her? so, for her massive, blow-out, last birthday EVER party, she had a fabulous luau (about three months ago). i got it into my head to bake her a birthday cake and make it SPECTACULAR.
my only ALONE cake-making experience up until then was molded lamb and bunny cakes last easter. they turned out okaaaaaaaaay. next year's will be better. so i enlisted the help of my fabulous friend meg, who can watch 4 kids, decorate a spectacular cake and carry on a serious-ish conversation all at the same time. in my book, that makes you a goddamned superhero. (yay meg!)
so, i told meg what i wanted to do (three tiers: ocean with floor, ocean with fishies, island with hula boy) and she sketched it out. i'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating, she sketched it out. then, through some kind of sorcery, she made fantastic yellow and orange fishies that you can EAT. and then she made frosting that coordinated and looked all pretty together. i, meanwhile, bought a wiggily dashboard hula boy from archie mcphee. glorious. i also bought 3 cake carriers in which to transport the three tiers of cake up to west bumble (no offense, lisa, but it is) where the party was. go me.
meg and i made plans to get together and DO IT on the sunday before the (friday) party. that morning i called meg and said something to the effect of, "uhduuuuuuuuuuuuur, whud r we doin wif dis here cake thinger today?" meg, very patiently, told me that we were decorating it. i? had not made the cake. so we made it out of mixes (eh.) and i watched while meg decorated it. things didn't QUITE work out as sketched because the mix cake didn't get tall like a real cake would have. my bad. but it DID turn out kind of amazing:
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