Bill Menees's Blog

Almost every year of Aaron’s life we’ve made a custom birthday cake for him.  Amy’s mom used to make them for her, so we started doing it for Aaron on his first birthday.  We’ve only missed one year so far.  Most of the cakes are made by baking multiple 9” x 13” flat cakes and then cutting and re-assembling the pieces to the desired shape. At Aaron’s 2008 party, someone asked me to see pictures of all the cakes we’ve made for Aaron, so I finally got them together.

Year	Aaron Turned	Cake (click each image for a larger version)
2002	1	Elmo cake made with a special pan.
2003	2	Hand-drawn Larry the Cucumber.
2004	3	We didn’t make a custom cake this year because we had Aaron’s party at the Nashville Zoo, and they wouldn’t let us bring in our own cake.  They said no outside food was allowed in the zoo because it might be harmful to the animals (and a few actually came to his party).
2005	4	Crocodile with licorice lips and candy corn teeth.
2006	5	Tank with cookie wheels.
2007	6	Monster truck.
2008	7	R2-D2 was the original plan, but after cutting it out I had enough scrap pieces left over to make a UT cake and two footballs too.

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