Rainbow Cake

My son wanted my to make him a rainbow cake for his birthday. To start with I thought he wanted a swirly marble cake (I'm not sure why since he didn't ask for a marble cake). After a few hiccups we discovered that he really wanted a cake similar to one my fabulous cousin made last year when we were visiting her. That made it easier. All I had to do was get the recipe from her and make it.

The hardest part of this cake is sorting all the m&ms. Good thing I have lots of willing helpers and don't mind the helpers taking payment via the occasional m&m that disappeared into their mouths and not the bowls.

After the m&ms are sorted, the cake baked and cut into shape, the only part left to do is ice the cake and stick all the m&ms on in rows.

The Hungry Little Caterpillar Card

We're going to a birthday party this afternoon and need to make a birthday card. I am not very good at remembering to write cards, make them or even turn up with a card. Usually it is not until the time comes to give someone the present we have lovingly wrapped up that I realise this lack.

So when I discovered this week that there is a theme of the Hungry Little Caterpillar I was determined not to forget again! We decided to make a card to match and started to prepare it early.

James has two thumbs. Just the right amount when we have two colours to use for the caterpillar. The left thumb had red paint and after he stamped the head we quickly wrapped it up in paper towel so that nothing else was turned red. The right thumb was dipped in the green paint and he had a lovely time making squelching sounds in time to his stamping of the caterpillars' body. I have to confess that this was our second attempt as the first time I forgot to show him what a caterpillar looked like and we had a trail of green dots all over the car.

Imogen wanted to join in, so I found a small round sponge for her to use as I couldn't bear the thought of finger painting in the house with a 2 year old. We had help from her big brother with the details after the paint dried. 

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