The seller was nice enough to change the auction to a buy it now since I kept pestering him with questions, so I am the proud new owner of a Volkswagen Bug cake pan!  My Herbie cake will look a lot more like Herbie than it did last time.  I never knew I’d be so excited over a cake pan!  I can’t wait to see how it turns out!

Cake pan was originally purchased at Sur La Table for anyone landing here from a search engine

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How about this…

Yesterday, yesterday, I bought the Wilton Cruiser cake pan off ebay to make this infamous Herbie cake.

Today, not even 24 hours later, I find this newly listed, apparently extremely rare, not to mention highly detailed cake pan (I say rare because I searched high and low for a VW cake pan already).

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I think there was actually physical pain involved for me.  I had to have Scott do it!  I asked Caleb several times if we could cut it.  I don’t know what else we would do with it, so it wouldn’t make sense not to cut it, but still.  I was afraid he’d see me doing and be like “STOOOP You’re killing Herbie!!!!!!”  So with his blessing, we cut Herbie’s ass end off!

For once he was actually excited about eating “birthday” cake (even though this was just a test run).

His first birthday, I made a whole smash cake just for him.  He did what babies do at their first birthday, licked a little, smeared a lot.  Plus, he was more interested in the new vehicles that came with the cake.  Imagine that.

His second birthday, he barely noticed there was a cake, even though I slaved in the kitchen baking a total of four cakes (2 flopped, I needed 1.5 cakes to complete this masterpiece).

This is all he ate:

In keeping with tradition, last year, I outdid the year before with a multi-cake suicide mission.  I was so exhausted by the time we got to the party, I could have slept through it!  There was a cake for each person there -the cakes spelled out Happy Birthday Caleb #3- I even made the letters out of melted chocolate chips.

It appears this year will be no exception to my tradition.  The way I look at it…years from now, when we’re in parent/child therapy, I can tell the therapist, I might not be a perfect mom, but damnit his birthday cakes rocked.

I think he was still a little unsure of how he felt about the cutting of the cake, but then “Mmm… icing” side won out in the end.

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Keeping in mind this is my first time ever carving a three dimensional cake, and my second time ever working with fondant, I don’t think he came out half bad!

He definitely looks best from the front (no he’s not missing a side view mirror – he’s an old car, thus he only had one!)

The side…eh…not overly pleased, but I can see where I made some mistakes in shaping now.

His roof came out great because of the rippled sunroof.  The stripes should have extended a little further.

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In honor of my blogoversary, I am actually making a cake.  Okay so it isn’t really for this occasion.  It is my first trial cake for Caleb’s birthday.  I’m attempting to make a 3-d Herbie cake.  I figure if I start now and bake two cakes per week, I should be able to have a halfway decent looking one by the end of March.  I’ve looked up lots of cake decorating tips and how-tos, and I think I have settled on a chocolate cake with buttercream icing covered in marshmallow fondant.  I have the layers built up right now, next step is carving the shape.  Depending on how embarrassing the results are, you may or may not be seeing a picture.

In the meantime, you can look at this absolutely incredible cake that is printed out for reference in the kitchen.  If Debbie Does Cakes was not located clear across the country in the Bay area, she would be making us a Herbie cake.  But this cake is so incredible, it would about kill me to slice it.

Yep, there’s a cake under there.  Amazing isn’t it?  Continue to be amazed by checking out her Flickr stream.

Photo credit: Debbie Does Cakes

In rather tragic and ironic news…when going to obtain the makings for my first trial Herbie cake, the main Herbie Caleb got for Christmas (there were 3 in the set, but only one looked exactly like above Herbie) was lost at Walmart.  I raced back up there immediately, searched under peoples’ cars, in shopping carts, in the lane we checked out (where I honestly think it was dropped because I heard something fall), I asked customer service, I asked our checkout girl, a sweet couple in line helped me look, I waited on cars to move where we had been parked.  Blah.  He’s gone.  The same one I fished out of the toilet.  Honestly, (and surprisingly) I took it harder tonight than Caleb did.  It just about killed me to come back here empty handed.  And while I’m telling all…I actually cried on the way home from searching for him.  Stupid, I know.  I’ll blame it on all the stress here lately.  I’m just absolutely sick about it though.

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…our biggest mess yet.  I’m not sure, it might be a toss up between this and the moon sand.  Thank God for lack of carpet and as I always say “on the 8th day, God created the dustbuster.”

By the way, it took the entire charge of the dustbuster’s battery to clean up most of this mess.

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I wanted to do a gingerbread house this year.  But (A) I didn’t want to bake the gingerbread and hunt down decorations myself and (B) I didn’t want to pay $10 for a kit.  So I waited until after Christmas hoping they’d go on sale.  A family member picked up one of the kits at an after Christmas sale and gave it to us the day after Christmas.  Finally Walmart marked theirs 75% off a few days ago, so I picked up three for $2.50 a piece!  I was thinking he could do one and I’d do one this year, then we’d have two for next year.  I wanted my own to try to replicate one of the beautiful examples on the box.  Now I’m not so sure, it would be kind of boring if it weren’t insanely messy and Caleb wasn’t helping!

A big thanks to the folks over at Wilton for putting this together like the leaning tower of gingerbread just perfectly

Concentration = open mouth

Taste testing as usual

Ugh, he needs another haircut

I have no idea what this face is about

A -thus far- progress picture…when looking at these, take note of the roof and the tabletop.

Bring on the sprinkles.  We have been known to let the sprinkles get out of hand a here and there.  And a little here.  Maybe here too.

The table is getting worse…

…and worse…

…and worse.

Scott is holding his hand under the sprinkles container.

Just a tad too much

Lean in close, I have a secret to tell you.  You know what your kid turns into when you get on the phone?  Right, Satan’s spawn.  Anyway.  Well I have the secret.  Here’s whatcha do.  You sit them at the table (or better yet, outside if the weather is nice…close to the neighbor’s house that you don’t like, that way the ants flock away from your house) and you give them a bowl, spoons, cups, and…sprinkles.  Colored sugar.  That’s it.  You would be amazed.  I mean, we are going on an hour and a half of playtime over here folks.

I decided the $0.94 a container for sprinkles was worth it since he seemed to be enjoying himself so much.

Yikes at the background, I was quickly losing the daylight so the colors in the next few are all whack.

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“…I’ve seen better days…”

Remember this guy and this one?

Let’s just say they have been WELL loved.  And that this Christmas gift is actually “needed.”  He is gonna flip about that!  We are so excited.  But I thought it was really sweet…we were talking about these poor Herbies yesterday, and Caleb said it would actually be just fine if Santa brought a new wheel for the very well loved Herbie his mommy painted.

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Caleb and I went to my mom and dad’s house for a few days.  My mom cooked a wonderful meal, and even sent me home with leftovers.  Scott drove up on Saturday to meet us and go to the children’s museum.  It was also my mom’s birthday so we went out for a birthday lunch before heading back this way.  I had meant to post pictures on Turkey day of Caleb’s shirt, but my camera did not appreciate being plugged in via a USB cord and refused to allow access to the pictures I had taken (our computer has a built in card reader, my moms card reader of course does every type of card except the compact flash cards that the bigger/SLR cameras use.  Anyway, I cut all these pieces out several weeks ago, and it figures, you know me, I was gluing them on at 12am the night before Thanksgiving.  And I didn’t get a single good picture of it/him while we were there.  I thought it turned out pretty cute though.

The body is made of his shoe prints laid over each other (heel at the top) and of course the feathers are his hand prints.

I did the back too

Caleb picked at food as he always does when we are away from home, and was so busy, he forgot to drink very much either.  I think he had about five cups of milk yesterday, and when it came time to eat, he climbed up in his chair quickly and said “push me back [to the table] and bib me up!”  I think I actually spit drink through my nose.

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We made a haunted house today. Happy…errr…Halloween.

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