Conor's Ambulance Cake

 Conor's Ambulance Cake

       

         Conor's ambulance cake with a flashing light. The top           

and bottom layers of the ambulance cake were Maritoni  Velvet   

Deluxe cakes and the middle layer was Maritoni Velvet Delight          

cake;  whereas the road was a Maritoni White Velvet cake. All the           

letters and numbers were carefully handmade to suit the space          

provided. The happy birthday candles were Conor's choice which        

he bought himself.            

                

       Children are fascinated with birthday cakes. They usually want their cakes to look as real as  can be as the characters in Disneyland or anything of their interest.  Our grandchildren, Grace and Conor are two of those children who are allured with Disney characters. Grace is into Disney princesses and Conor is into tractors, fire engines and the like. 

         Since I have found myself re-born in baking, particularly in fondant cakes, I have fun time with Grace (7 years old) and Conor (4 years old) decorating cakes as our bonding moments. I let them explore their creativity in making cake toppers and how they'd decorate a particular cake. Doing stuff with them is absolutely heaven! 

The first glance of the ambulance cake 

            In November 2013, Conor had chosen his 4th birthday cake ( for 4th January 2014) to  be an ambulance cake with a flashing light! Most of the time that they called in Barryland, Crossmahon for a hug and a chat, he'd sit with  me and pick his ambulance design in the Internet (to be this and that), of course not to forget about the flashing light, which was his Ganggang (Grandad) Tony's assignment.

         'Twas a bit of a challenge to me as at the time I only had the regular rolling pin, a knife and a piece of fondant tool! (I'm just a year living here yet.) But as what it is said, 'When there's a will, there's a way.' With Conor's trust in me to make his ambulance cake, I was equipped with excitement, resourcefulness and love. It was a great honour indeed! (Now I have most of what I need, thanks God.)

The happy Grandad Tony

            Conor's ambulance cake turned out to be fabulous and he adored it; hence Maritoni Cakes' kick off . Thanks to Linda Murphy for filling me up with so much encouragement. 

      

                   And mind you, because of Conor's ambulance cake with the flashing light, Grace has been looking forward (this early yet) for her Sofia the First castle cake for her 8th birthday in June. 

          (And we have a secret as well for their Mammy Linda's birthday cake, 25th January and their Daddy Pat in April .  ^-^)