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July 29, 2006
Care for a piece of Octopus anyone?
So, Stephen wanted an octopus/ shark birthday party. The shark was covered by the blow-up pool and the pinata. That left the cake being an octopus. I kinda had an idea in my head for how I could pull off an octupus using cupcakes for the tentacles. It worked. I was so pumped. I googled octupi cakes and didn't get much in the way of anything. Very disappointing. The body of the cake is a formula can that just baked with a dome shape at the top naturally. Then I just tapered the tentacles with big and mini cupcakes. That icing under any other circumstances (besides octupi or maybe halloween) would have been extremely disturbing, but worked great for Mr. Octo here. I had hoped to put the face on him with icing instead of candy, but as you can see in the pictures, the icing is drooping because it is melting. It was seriously that hot that day and in our house. I think on a cooler day with a better icing situation it could have come out even cuter. As well as with Lexie's starfish. But ya know it tasted great and almost all of it got eaten. Stephen was thrilled and now when somebody googles 'octopus cake' that will actually a pretty good idea of how to make one. if I do say so myself.
We didn't catch a picture of Lexie smiling. But she did like her cake. She was just so hot. Eventually that cake ended up a big pile of mush. I think she ate a good bit of it. And she shared with the other babies (Bryce and Natalie)in high chairs on either side of her. It was good practice for them since both of them have their big 1st bdays coming up soon.
Cooking , holidays , photographs | By adrienne | 10:59 AM
Comments
Hello! That cake is awesome! Glad to see Stephen was pleased! I miss you guys so much. Maybe I'll get over that way sometime. However, if you ever come towards GA let me know. My number hasn't changed!
Love y'all!
Posted by: Vickie Orr at July 29, 2006 03:47 PM
omg.
lexie looks SO MUCH like her dad...
happy birthdays all around!
Posted by: Sara at July 29, 2006 04:13 PM
oh, and i forgot to say that both cakes are adorable! is the octopus' head some kind of modified bundt? i love the candy suction thingies on the cupcake tentacles...
Posted by: Sara at July 29, 2006 04:15 PM
regardless of her not smiling, I think that's a cute picture of lexie.
Sara - the top of "Mr. Octo" originally was what wouldn't fit in the formula can baked in a bowl. But we won't go into what it looked like (especially when Adrienne tried it out a few days earlier with strawberry/pink cake). The cake kind of grew out of the formula can and formed the curve on top when it baked.
Posted by: jessie at July 29, 2006 09:21 PM
That's so creative! Man, I wish I had a reason to celebrate the octopus...
Posted by: emily at July 31, 2006 05:27 PM
We had such a great time at the party, even though it was like 1,000 degrees! I must say, the the octopus cake was very clever.
Posted by: Jeniliz at August 15, 2006 03:31 PM