More celebration food!

It has become a tradition over the past 5 years or so for me to make 3 birthday cakes for each of my girls, although nowadays there's a reasonable chance that they will make at least one of them themselves.  They both have birthdays near the beginning of the month, so often the first one is the traditional take and share Fun Club birthday cake.  Then there's the 'on the day' birthday cake and the birthday party/birthday tea (if a treat is chosen instead of a party we usually have a few friends round for a special birthday tea).

Today K and I made the Fun Club birthday cake.  If a celebratory chocolate cake is called for, I generally go for this one (although I do reduce the amount of sugar a bit and make 2/3 of the icing she gives!) and indeed that's what we did.  We made it together, I iced it while the girls were having tea and then K decorated it.

That says 'Happy Birthday me'!

Most years both K & M have chosen to have a party, whether small and at home or a bit bigger and in a Scout Hut/at Daddy's cricket club.  Last year, however, M chose a visit to her friends the dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum, which was very nearly a disaster when we got there to find that the 'dinosaurs were on holiday' (closed for cleaning), but fortunately there was a temporary exhibition that saved the day.  This year, when we went to see Twelfth Night, K found a leaflet that told her that The Comedy of Errors final performance was on *on her birthday* and was extremely excited and asked if she could go to that instead of a party.  It's really not what I expected to be doing with my daughter on her 9th birthday, but who am I to argue!