Why yes. Yes it is.
But I have a very good reason for serving manure cake.
You see, I am hosting a double birthday party for my boys 2 & 4 this summer at a bounce house place. Until now I have chosen cheap or free venues for our family parties but after we attended a party at PumpItUp this spring I decided I could justify the expense because we were taking care of 2 parties in one event. We didn't add on the extras that really run up the total cost as well as serving homemade birthday cake in lieu of a made-to-order birthday cake like we had done in previous years. My boys requested 'tractor cakes' which for the unskilled cake decorator means appropriate colored icing and strategically placed toys for decoration. Sounds easy enough, right?
Some weeks ago I found miniature John Deere farm scenes with tractors at WalMart. They each had a tractor, fencing, two farmers and either two cows or two horses.
What I didn't count on was falling and fracturing my arm near the wrist one week before the event. So that brings me to today, party eve. I have my injured arm/wrist/hand splinted and swollen and in pain from doing more than I would admit to my new orthopedist. My un-fractured arm/hand/wrist is sore and achy from taking up the slack for the injured hand. I did fine baking the cakes (one vanilla and one chocolate) this morning and even mixing and applying the green-vanilla icing to one half of each cake. That's the grass. ;) Then I mixed the chocolate cake and began the mud (or earth or soil) portion of the tractor/farm motif.
Well sometimes when you are an accident prone person with one arm in a a splint and have a spatula with chocolate icing in your hand you can lose your balance. When you lose your balance you can also lose your icing prematurely. In fact, you can lose a huge blob of it right in the middle of your green-vanilla field side of your cake. Do you remember in art class when you found out it is significantly easier to hide a light-on-dark mistake than a dark-on-light mistake? The same applies here. BTW I had no remaining green-vanilla icing and was almost completely out of powdered sugar so just covering the chocolate with green-vanilla would be an ordeal. So, as I finished the application of 'mud' to both cakes I considered my options.
I thought about covering the blob with one of the tractors but this blob was as big as either tractor AND the tractor was supposed to be tilling the earth or something on the chocolate side while the green-vanilla pastures were for the horses or cows.
UGH. Cows are disgusting stinky beasts.
YES! COWS are stinky beasts that stink like POOP! And cows make poop and there is plenty of poop anytime you come near a cow.
And so it is done. The cows are on the cake that was hit with the chocolate blob. The chocolate blob is in the corner of their fenced in area. Thankfully, the set included a farmer with a shovel!
This post is taken from an FB NOTE I wrote on 08July11.
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