{"id":139,"date":"2008-05-12T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/05\/fotomoms-birthday-cake.html"},"modified":"2008-05-12T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T17:08:00","slug":"fotomoms-birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/05\/fotomoms-birthday-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"FotoMom’s Birthday Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t consider myself an extremely proud person. I’m proud of my boys, my husband, even my well-behaved puppy dog, but I don’t often get too proud of myself.<\/p>\n

A couple weeks ago, I know, I was proud of my clean house<\/a> (which isn’t that clean anymore)!<\/p>\n

Here’s something else I’m pretty proud of: Maryann’s Birthday Cake! Click on the photo for the step-by-step in how I did this.<\/p>\n

What Maryann probably didn’t realize was all the brainstorms her husband and I went through: a cemetary, the USS Enterprise, flowers, and a red velvet Darth Vader cake had crossed our minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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I guess it was after spending $35 for Timmy’s “Thomas the Tank Engine” 1st birthday cake<\/a> that I felt that I could decorate my own cakes for a fraction of the cost, all the while doing something special for my boys and for friends. So for my birthday in 2006 I asked for cake decorating lessons at the local A.C. Moore craft store.<\/p>\n

The class was fun and I learned SO MUCH! See more of my hand-decorated cakes here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Chef Duff Goldman<\/a> I am not, but I still have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t consider myself an extremely proud person. I’m proud of my boys, my husband, even my well-behaved puppy dog, but I don’t often get too proud of myself. A couple weeks ago, I know, I was proud of my clean house (which isn’t that clean anymore)! Here’s something else I’m pretty proud of: Maryann’s … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[615],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t