{"id":4441,"date":"2011-02-06T20:31:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T02:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4441"},"modified":"2011-02-06T20:31:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T02:31:40","slug":"octopus-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4441","title":{"rendered":"Octopus Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several folks have asked me today about Eli’s birthday cake from the photo in the previous post.
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I made the cake Thursday afternoon from our favorite chocolate cake recipe. <\/p>\n

Then my mom and I decorated it Friday morning. It is a retired Williams-Sonoma cake pan<\/a> that I bought on a whim when they were closing it out for $7 at our local Williams-Sonoma store. <\/p>\n

Eli has loved it from the moment I bought it and we often have octopus shaped cake at our house, although this is the first time I’ve taken the time to decorate it. Armed with photos from the internet, my mom and I iced it and stuck candy to his arms to be the tentacle suction cups. The octopus is purple because that is Eli’s favorite color. I found the fish candies at a party store and that was the icing on the cake, so to speak. Eli brought me his toy Wii-mote to add to the cake just before the kids arrived because as he said in his best “Duh, Mom” voice, “It’s a Wii party.”<\/p>\n

It’s pretty homemade looking but the boys gobbled it up and my mom and I had a lot of fun decorating it. I have fond memories of my mom decorating my cakes from childhood and I’m glad that I finally did the same for Eli. Liza has already declared that she needs a fish cake for her birthday in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several folks have asked me today about Eli’s birthday cake from the photo in the previous post. I made the cake Thursday afternoon from our favorite chocolate cake recipe. Then my mom and I decorated it Friday morning. It is a retired Williams-Sonoma cake pan that I bought on a whim when they were closing … Continue reading Octopus Cake<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\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