The Cake

Nathan looooves Lego Ninjago stuff right now. It is relatively new so our local bakeries do not have any cake designs for it yet. Nathan tells me that he wants me to make his birthday cake. (Panic!) If he wants me to make his cake this year instead of buying one, then that is exactly what he will get. 

Nathan insisted on wanting the red ninja, Kai, on his cake. So what do I do? I scour the internet for images of Lego Ninjago cakes that other crafty moms attempted to make.  

In case you don't know what this whole Ninjago thing is, here is a pic. 

After showing him many, many, many cake images he decided on this one. 

Simple enough, huh? Yeah, that's what I thought too. But boy was I ever wrong! I give props to all the cake makers out there. I like to bake cakes, but I knew with this being his birthday cake that it would have to be close to perfect. The pressure was on. I went and bought all the supplies I would need. I had done my research and learned that a red icing is very difficult to make - so I even bought the Wilton "no taste" red gel to tint my butter cream icing. Well, I'll just say that a whole tube of that stuff later my icing was a dark fuchsia pink. Not red. 

We can't have a pink ninja now can we?? So back to Wal-Mart I go. I ended up buying the spray out of a can red icing. Worked much better. :) This is what I ended up with - the final product of my effort in cake making. 

Yes, I realize I could have written his name a little straighter along the bottom. :)

Now, I had to get Nathan's approval. He got home from school and I had the kitchen all decorated in birthday stuff. His face when he walked in and saw his cake...

                                                            He loved his cake!