A few friends of mine, whose children go to the same school as my boys & I decided to organise a cake sale to raise money for the school fund. My creative mind went off dreaming up exciting decorations for the cakes that would be really appealing to the school kids. I came up with these cookie monster cakes! I had to try a batch out with the boys before the sale just to make sure they worked ok! ;o)
It was such fun! The boys used a piping bag to squidge the blue cookie monster 'fur' on & then put a black dot onto white chocolate buttons to make the eyes & stuck them on the cake along with a mini cookie to finish the whole monster off (although I decided that breaking a normal size cookie in half looked better & was more cost effective). Luke was impressed, not only that the cake tasted delicious, but that he was ''really good at putting the icing on, Mummy!'' A success all round I feel.
When the school cake sale came around, I decorated 108 ready made shop bought fairy cakes & transformed them with melted chocolate, sprinkles, smarties, fudge icing, glace icing, icing flowers, butter icing, cherries & more! (Do click the photos to see the cakes better!). I was pleased with the finished results.... but WAIT!!.....
... there's one cake missing!!!!.....
I wonder who ate that one?? :DThe school cake sale was a HUGE success & raised £85 in less than 20 minutes! The headmaster was impressed that the parents parted so easily & quickly with their money! I was glad that my cakes sold really well... in fact by the time I had picked Timmy & Luke up from their class & got into the school hall, all my cakes had gone! What a relief! I had an awful feeling my cakes would be left behind... Anyway, good job I saved one each for us all to have with our tea!
Hope all who read are very well & enjoying the start of the summer holidays. Till next time! :o)
5 comments:
Gosh you is clever!! That made me want to go downstairs and have a biccie! Did she ask by the way?(The little cake muncher!)
Mum xxx
Absolutely terrific, Emily! You clever (and energetic) thing! Well done everyone who helped too. (They won't have needed much motivating for such a delightful and scrummy task!)
Heaps of love,
(and looking forward to finding out what the cakes taste like one day)
DaddyO xxxxxx
Thankyou! Yes Annie-Joy was allowed to eat the cake! I decorated most of them while she was eating her lunch the day before the sale so I gave her a cake for pudding when I had finished & taken piccies! :o)
Wow good job love i love the cookie monster cakes,bet they went first,how did you get them to school with them sticking to everything though?? x x x x
What amazing cakes as always! I bet you were dreaming about them when you shut your eyes at bedtime!!! xxx
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