We just survived the annual triple birthday party for the three youngest girls. It was a chaotic day with 20 kids, girls & boys, from three to nine years old. It took a team of four to pull it off –us parents, the almost adult kid, and the almost adult kids boyfriend. There is no way I would have hosted a home party without all that support!
I like to make the girls a special cake every year for their party. This year was the window box cake. It came from a picture I ripped out of a magazine way back in the ‘90’s. Back then I had the desire to do projects like this for my oldest but I had absolutely no idea how to go about it! Cakes are something I have just figured out in the last three years. So she missed out when she was little but gets to enjoy them now even though she is almost all grown up.
I used a 9×13 chocolate cake -recipe found on Engineering the Taste (thanks Jessica). I prepped the cake by cutting it in half lengthwise and stacking the two pieces, hollowing out the top and doing a crumb coat of very thin icing. Iced the outside and borders with the yellow icing and filled the top with cookie crumbs. Then I just added a few props and made flowers out of skewers and a variety of candies from the bulk foods section at the grocery store.
Kids were happy and therefore I am very happy with it!