Next Great Baker

So Henry and Sumner are obsessed with The Cake Boss and his shows including the Next Great Baker competition.  Both boys fancy themselves bakers and have been begging to have the chance to make a fancy cake with frosting.  Needless to say, they have envisioned the 5 foot tall models that the Cake Boss has constructed using motors and steel frames.  I was envisioning taking a sheet cake and cutting it up and covering it with frosting.

Today Speech was canceled so we suddenly had an afternoon at home free so I spent the afternoon before the boys came home making vanilla cake so that they could finally have the chance to make something.  When they arrived home, they were so excited about the job.  They quickly began sketching out what they were going to build (after of course fighting over who was going to get to design it but luckily a meltdown was averted).  What they came up with was a Jabba the Hutt cake with green frosting.

First we had to make the green buttercream frosting and of course, I wanted to make it the fancy way with beaten egg whites and sugar syrup boiled to 246 degrees.  Despite a few missteps, we ended up with some bright green tasty frosting.  Sumner then took the knife to the cakes I had made to cut them up and reassemble them in some semblance of Jabba the Hutt.  For those of you not in the know, Jabba the Hutt is a character in Star Wars and looks like this -

In terms of things they could have picked to create, this seemed doable since he's just sort of a big, green blob.  Well, after an hour of cutting, frosting, licking the spoon, adding more frosting and licking more fingers, we ended up with our own Jabba the Hutt.  I would say that they wouldn't have won on the Next Great Baker but at least they had fun trying to create this cake.  And I can officially check this off my list of things I need to do this Spring!

Use your imaginations please!  He tasted great by the way!