Monday, September 20, 2010




Huck turned two today! Yesterday we celebrated his birthday with some friends and Grandma Charlotte and Uncle Chad.

Tom is a Soldier, a dentist, a carpentar, a painter, and a chef all rolled into one! He made this fantatic R2-D2 cake for Huck. It was actually his first time even baking a cake, let alone a project of this magnitude. He did an amazing job. The cake is consists of nine, 9 inch round cakes, a batch of rice krispie treats (for the legs), 10 pounds of powder sugar, 7 pounds of butter, and a whole lot of heart. Tom even made his own fondant frosting...and bought a new Kitchen Aid mixer to help...he was complaining that his wrist hurt after mixing two batches of Buttercream with the hand mixer. All in all I think the finished product took close to 10 hours, including the baking time. Take that Food Network, Challenge contestants!

Huck loved his cake! And we love Tom for making it for him!

5 comments:

Grandma's Cookie Jar said...

WOW! Awesome job Tom! I'll bet you'll be eating cake for some time! That is true dedicaion and love for you son to spend that time and effort! What will you do next time??? (Diana-Julie's mom)
Your little boys are so cute!

Naomi said...

Well, who would have thought?! Awesome job on the cake Tom! HAPPY BIRTHDAY Huck!

*julie* said...

wowsa! If he can do this with birthday cakes, I wonder what he can do with Halloween costumes, because it's just around the corner you know!

Mike said...

wow that is amazing. i guess all that time tom and i spend in lab doing wax ups paid off. glad to see the family doing well.

Starr Phippen said...

Wow! That cake would be welcome at any annual Star Wars conference. Nice job Tom.