What a $100 cake looks like
 

3 servings coconut flour = $2.36
12 duck eggs = $12.00
1.5 cups raw honey = $3.00
1 cup grapeseed oil = $2.35
2.5 containers special-diet frosting = $15, plus $35 rush shipping because I fucked up
Additional homemade frosting after I figured out how to make it myself = $3
Payment to my friend the cake decorater = $25 giftcard

Total cost of cake = $97.71

Giving my special-diet girl the perfect cake on the first birthday she's been aware enough to really understand = Priceless.

Of course now that I've nailed down the frosting process, the cost for that will go down from $53 to about $8 when I have to do it all again in May for Minifob's birthday. Plus his theme is Legos and I feel confident I can decorate that one myself without my friend's help. So his cake will only cost $27.71. Eh, you live and learn.

Beautiful! And priceless. :)

Worth every single cent.

(TWELVE duck eggs?! now I know why you queried the price on Borough Market - you need to start keeping ducks, m'lady!)

Is Mr Clod fair?
You have very blond childer.
I know why the step-childer are dark (dark and beautiful), I just wondered.

woot ... is lovely :)

What an adorable child, smile is priceless. Well done clodfobble!

Best Mom evah!

Brown hair, blue eyes. Minifob looks exactly like him, and his hair turned definitively brown around age 3. Minifobette, on the other hand, looks like me to the point that others have mistaken childhood pictures of me for recent pictures of her. I started to go dirty-blonde around age 10 and didn't get to the current light brown color until my early 20s. But I still have the rosacea--I mean, uh, adorable rosy complexion.

Do any of the adults here recognize the character on the cake? I know all her friends will, but it's not the most well-known.

I actually considered it, but I came to the conclusion that they wouldn't do well in my small suburban backyard, and my neighbors would hate me. It's only so many because I'm cooking with coconut flour, which absorbs liquid like a beast. There's only 225 grams of flour in that whole cake. If it had been almond flour instead, there would have been 3 times the flour and 1/3 the eggs.

Recognising the character; but of course!
It's that green... monster... thing with teeth?

Ah, no.
Enlighten please Ms Clod.

Oh and if it turns out to be American-only then I win, okay?

Is it the little guy from that game where you cut the rope so he can eat the candy?

Awesome cake, awesome mom. Happy birthday, minifobette.

Gosh, I wonder what Clod does in her spare time? :lol2:

That's an adorable girl you've got there Cloddy.

"Mommy, when can we unwrap the cake?"

Yes, looks like Mom. :yesnod:

Yes, it's OmNom, from the phone app Cut The Rope. Which she requested spontaneously, having put together entirely by herself that parties have themes, and the birthday kid gets to choose the theme, and it should be the birthday kid's favorite character or thing.

It should also be known that every bite of the cake was eaten, so I have proof it tasted as good as it looked.

Excellent! I did themed birthday parties too, diy ones at home with costumes and shaped cakes that I got wrist cramp from decorating. All of my kids fondly remember each party. Totally worth it. :)

This makes me proud. Proud to know and count friend such a good, talented, loving parent.


This makes me happy. Happy to know all that hard work produced success. :-)

You da MOM!:thumb:

I'm just reflecting on how much easier it would have been to say "Sorry, Sweetie, you can't have a cake because blah blah blah, but here's a crappy sago pudding with a candle on it..."

No. All the other kids get yummy decorated cakes on birthdays, and Minifobette knows that, and to hell with her feeling left out, marginalised, excluded.

The cake is NOT a lie.

Those pinchable cheeks aren't a lie either. I just wanna pinch them.

Awww, man. That's a supremely rad little-kid smile.

Little ƒuckers won't give a real smile for the camera, usually, in my experience.

You have to either a) trick them, or b) do something super-awesome.

Read this on my phone when it was first posted and meant to post when i got home.

Anyways: reading the OP I proper choked up. You, Clod, are a superb mum. You remind me of my own mum and the lengths she used to go to to try and make ridiculously restricted diets bend to some sense of 'normal'. Cooking with blends of weird and wonderful non-wheat flours, this and that substitute.

My big thing was jelly. I really, really loved the big colourful wobbly jellies that you got at kids' birthday parties. But food colouring was not allowed and natural options were no where near as widely available as they are now. I think ordinary gelatin might have been off the menu as well, along with regular sugar. She used seaweed and managed to make an impressively green jelly. It wasn't wholly successful. Taste was a little off-kilter, but I only really know that because I found out later :p My brother and cousins all ate it with apparent gusto and much praise, so I just enjoyed it. There were other, far more successful culinary adventures, but the jelly always sticks in my mind. It fulfilled its primary purpose: it was a jelly, and it was manifestly bright green, ergo it was a proper birthday party.

The cake is awesome, Clod. And your little lass looks a picture.

I never got around to posting my comments either. It's rather late now in the thread; however, I do want to say that Clodfobble is an awesome mom. I think all too often super moms like you aren't recognized and acknowledged enough. Btw, love the cake. :thumb: