Birthday cake with miniature shoes

Turning 12 years old is quite something - last year as a normal balanced human being, before the hormonal changes turn you into a strange and scary monster for a number of years before you are transformed once again into a human being - though this time a rather grown up version of your former self....

.... anyway, Mille (the first child I met, that I actually liked - probably because she was a most unorthodox sand eating princess) celebrated her 12th birthday today at her father's house, and she had told me that she wasn't too grown up to have a cake - but she's definitely too grown up for cute animals and toys, but shoes....show me any girl who is not into shoes irrespective of age, and I will show you a liar.

Twelve shoes - one for each year. It was so much fun making it!

Red marzipan cake

For so many reasons my friend, Anne Katrine, deserved having a cake and eating it to...

and as I just happened to have some cake, some mousse (strawberry and lime), some chocolate butter cream and red marzipan, and I was more than happy to accommodate her.

Ballon cake

The birthday party we were invited to got cancelled, so this morning I found my self all caked up with no-where to go..... 

Anyway, the birthday cake wasn't quite finished, so I decided to re-design it in honor of our daughter, Caroline, who turned 5 months today - talk about having your cake and not being able to eat it, poor child ;-) 

The neighbor's children are down with chickenpox, so guess who will eat the cake tomorrow....