Food is my Love Language: 5 Minute Freewrite, Prompt: Frosting a Cake

The most recent cake I did was for my youngest grandson's first birthday party. He is quite the 'Wild Thing"
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This is going to be a freewrite that I couldn't help but think of ahead of time. No fictional stuff here today!

Seeing today's prompt made me realize just how many cakes I've made over the years... which led me to realize just how much I love to make cakes for people (No, That's not quite right. Not just cake, but food in general.) Maybe I'm becoming like my grandma more and more... I love cooking meals for my family, I love cooking and sending home extras with my kids who no longer live at home. I find myself echoing those oft heard words at my grandma's house "Have you eaten?" "Are you hungry?" when my grown kids come over to visit (which is often... and I don't think that it's JUST because of my cooking!)

Icing and cakes are one of my favorite things, though. It can be frustrating when things aren't working out, but I have hundreds of photos on my computer from birthdays past. All of them hold so many memories and stories... I think I could probably write an entire post for each one! We were always so broke when the kids were growing up, sometimes the special cake was about the only gift (cake mixes and frosting ingredients are cheap!) but they always always appreciated it and loved the cakes.

We used to have birthday parties that were so much fun, even without money. One year we did a party for the boys where we collected a bunch of old broken gadgets, CD/DVD players, TVs whatever and bought each kid a party favor of a screwdriver from the Dollar Tree and they spent sooooo long carefully taking apart all of the electronics that they didn't even want to stop to make homemade pizzas and eat cake!

Or the cake decorating party where each kid got their own little cake, decorating lessons and had a ton of fun.

Jaedin's (@knightengale) 9th birthday party where they made slime and did 'Mad Scientist' experiments with Patrick @serapium

The Redwall party where Patrick taught the boys how to make slingshots and we did an archery contest of sorts.

The many variations of dressup parties that the girls did... and parties that they had for their own dolls/stuffed animals and went all out making decorations and decorating cakes for their 'kids'...

Ahhhh... memories! Yeah, I could write a lot of posts on birthdays and cakes! :)

A cake for my older grandson's birthday with his favorite character at the time.

* And of course I had to make a second cake, because I always make too much cake AND I had to get these character toys for him :)

* The cake I made for my daughter's wedding

* With multicolored tiers that matched her wedding colors

* A baby shower cake that I made for a friend's first grandbaby.

* The cake that taught my daughter that I know when she's lying.

*The cake I made for my daughter with a crown made out of royal icing that she wanted to save forever, but a couple of little boys over fora homeschool co-op day broke it and ate it (and she still is hurt by the memory!)

* The cake that I made for a favorite leading cast member of the very first play I directed for our homeschool group at the community theater.

* The cake I made for @ikaraboutyou back in the day when she was a student of mine (maybe just a cast member in a play that I had written and directed, actually) but who is still a huge part of my life

* A cake I made for my daughter's surprise 13th birthday party (which was really a surprise because we couldn't afford a party until she was technically 13 1/2!

* The Oreo cake that I made for Patrick for our 37th birthday party where a BUNCH of people came over...

* A cake that I made with my oldest daughter for a combined party she had with a friend

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