GA Cake Bake

Last week at church Dani got to participate in the annual GA Cake Bake.

 

GA's stands for Girls in Action and it is the group our church has for young girls ages K-6th grade. Once a year they have a cake bake that the girls can particpate in for small prizes for categories such as best overall, most creative, best tasting, and most colorful.

 

This is the first year and last year Dani will get to partipate so we went all out!!

 

 

We came up with our plan for the cake, gathered our supplies and started baking. I even got brave and decided to buy the professional icing so that we could mix and flavor it ourselves!

 

Dani mixed up the batter for the cakes all by herself. She decided to go with the key lime cake mix so that it would taste great and be colorful....

 

Then we mixed up the icing. She wanted it to be light pink, so she dropped food coloring in until it was the perfect color! 

 Daddy enjoyed the testing process for the flavor...he said it was PERFECT!! He was impressed by our real icing!

 

Next we had to carve out the two smaller crosses and put the icing on. The icing of the cakes was probably the toughest part! We both have a new respect for cake makers. I am sure there is some trick to icing the cakes but man, every stroke of the knife would pull up crumbs from the cake. We just had to take our time and try our best to minimize the crumb spreading.

 

They turned out beautiful!! She decorated with different colored icing, sugar flowers, and sprinkles. I did help write "He is Risen" on the cardboard backing. I tried to let her do the majority of the decorating and she did all of the mixing and baking.

 

Her finished product....I think it is safe to say she did a beautiful job!!

 

Here are some pics of the competition. The one on the right won for best overall.

 

 

This one won most creative....which I have to agree it is super cute!

 

Unfortunately Dani's beautiful cake did not win anything that night. However, she walked away saying "I still think mine was the best one there". We had a great time in the kitchen together making it so that's really what it is all about right?!!

 

 

Until next time....