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Happy Birthday, Bear! (Godzilla Cake)

// November 18th, 2011 // Children and Babies, Cooking

Just a few days after Halloween, my tiny baby Bear turned three, which is unbelievable to me.  It seems like just yesterday that I brought him home from the hospital and had a near panic attack as Hot Husband turned out of the hospital parking lot and onto the road and all those other cars were driving past at such high speed.  I mean, I knew I’d have to be the one to keep him safe, but I had never considered all of the outside forces that I’d have to contend with.

And now he’s three.  And I have to contend with forces like gravity and velocity.  And pee.  Lots and lots of pee.

That teeny tiny helpless baby can count, recognize his letters, spell his name, and know that only Tyrannosaurus has two fingers.

For his birthday, Bear wanted a Godzilla cake, which is fitting, since he shares Godzilla’s birthday.  I’m an inexperienced cake decorator, but I figured I’d give it my best shot.  Knowing that the mini panda cake for his first birthday took me hours upon hours, I figured I was in for a huge challenge, but I guess I’ve improved some since then.  It still took forever, but not as long and it turned out okay.

The first thing I had to decide was whether to try to sculpt a cake or get a molded pan.  It wasn’t much of a decision.  I bought this dinosaur pan from Wilton:

Bear didn’t even try to tell me it wasn’t Godzilla because of the number of fingers or spinal plates or whatever.

I figured using a molded pan would make decorating the cake much easier as I just followed the instructions and the features on the cake.  Unfortunately, step one of decorating the cake is to “frost the entire cake white.”

So much for features.

I then placed the pan liner alongside the cake for a visual and began following the directions, trying to get from White Blob to this:

Here’s my Godzilla cake step-by-step:

Look!  He even breathes fire!

“What do you think of your Godzilla cake, Bear?”

“I think pretty good.”

Happy birthday, sweet Bear!