Well, We Tried

Every year the Cub Scouts hold a Blue and Gold Banquet.  For the past two years, the boys were supposed to bake and decorate a cake with their dads.  Jay was out of town last year so I baked a cake - not from scratch - and took it to the dinner.  It was the only cake that wasn't creatively decorated.  Most of the cakes had cute themes.  Not ours.  I didn't realize it was "that" kind of cake baking activity.

This year, Jay was around and he and William made a pizza cake.

Nice, huh.  It is a single layer round cake.  We used vanilla frosting colored red for the sauce.  We grated white chocolate for the cheese.  The pepperonis are fruit rollups cut into circles.  Gummy bears and tootsie rolls make up the rest of the pizza toppings.  It was really cute.

And of course, it was only one of two cakes that were "themed".  Everyone else just made a regular cake.  They were yummy, but nothing decorated in a crazy way.

Thank goodness this is our last Blue and Gold Banquet.  Even when we try we can't quite get the cake baking right.  Oh well.  William was pretty proud of his cake and it was yummy.  Good enough.

And Jay's mystery illness has a name - Endocarditis.  He has a random infection on his aortic valve and is anemic.  Good times.  He is on IV antibiotics for probably a month. He seems to be feeling a bit better so that's good.  Just don't ask him about his Transesophageal Echocardiogram - it wasn't fun or pretty.

Thank heavens for modern medicine and good doctors.

And pizza cakes!  :)