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Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in Kids at 9:28 am on Saturday, 23 February 2008
Tony Stewart from Intergen holds himself out there as a pretty handy birthday cake maker. I feel his grip on the title is loosening after this late night effort for my little buddy’s birthday party today. This is my first ever birthday cake.
This years cake is, of course, a response to the challenge the lady of the house made with last years aeronautical effort.
Anyone else got a cake to share?
Update: Robin submits ‘kagemand’, Catherine and Simon (from Xero - woot!) beat us all with Oliver’s racing car cake. That is cool!
 
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My gorgeous wife made me a chocolate ice cream echidna cake one year… Must find photos… must eat cake.
Smallest daughter has asked for, and will receive, a trampoline-shaped cake in three sleeps’ time. But don’t tell her, it’s a surprise!
photos to follow.
Lucky George! You could open up a sideline to Xero doing kids birthday cakes and really get those creative instincts flowing!
My best effort was a 3-D globe cake for an aunt’s 70th birthday - done in tandem with a purple Barney cake for her great niece, but this was before digital cameras so you’ll have to take my word for it.
Cheers
Sonia
2 weeks ago we made a volcano cake for my son, Oscar’s, 8th birthday. The challenge for his volcano cake was to make the “smoke”.
With a little help from BOC Gases in Gracefield we had it sussed - hot water in a cut-down paper cup inside the rim of the volcano with a couple of pieces of dry ice dropped in every now and then to boost the “smoke”. Of course, we “needed” some liquid nitrogen as well…. just in case the dry ice didn’t work, so Oscar and I spent the next day freezing and crumbling flowers, eating frozen crackers and breathing out “smoke” and driving in a nail using a cryogenically frozen banana.
And I only got one cryo burn on my hand!
Have got a mate who decorates cakes as a hobby…
Check this one out, for one of my workmates when she left Intergen: http://www.blitzin.co.nz/Cake%20Photos/Kids%20Birthday%20Cakes/Fairy%20Cake%2001.JPG
If I’d known, we could have got Tony to do it!!
You forgot to mention that when the kagemand (cake man) has his head cut off, everybody has to scream! You never heard so many kids scream so loudly …
A one off cake could hardly be considered a threat. I’d expect to see a consistent flow of cakes over many years before I’d be concerned. You are way behind but with 50% more children I guess you could catch up. I’m always up for some competition. The trick for you now is to stick with it:)