9/17/2023 0 Comments Happy birthday sweetie monkey![]() After that, it’s just a matter of figuring out how you’d like to approach this - i.e., do you need a “smash” or little cake for the baby to tear into? - and because I was completely indecisive (but picked the most complicated method myself, typically), I’m suggesting three different approaches below the recipe, but I promise, they all yield the same delightful result: Or, you know, you could plan ahead, but with only a year’s notice, it seems unfair that we should be expected to. Here in New York City, I find that most street carts sell currently ripe bananas, if you pass one along your way. Next, it helps to have old bananas, which is annoying when stores only want to sell you unforgivably green ones with maximum shelf lives. First, who is going to watch the baby once you realize that one year-olds have kitchen enthusiasm, but terrible knife skills? It helps to have a sunny day, a self-sufficient dad and a park nearby with lots of leaves for the baby to eat investigate. This is not a difficult cake to make (a two-bowl cake and a one-bowl frosting), but there are logistics to consider. I may or may not have spent 45 minutes last week practicing doodling monkeys so I could get it right. I may or may not have started planning this in June. But we don’t bear grudges, in fact, I figured if I could only get my act together for one single birthday cake this year, it might as well be a cake for the monkey. It turns out, babies keep you really busy. Of course, the joke is on me because who went without a homemade birthday cake this year? Yup, you’re looking at her. Or, perhaps, one’s entire life to date, for the first birthday set. I hope to make it as easy as possible for everyone to get the fluffy, towering, butter-laden imperfectly frosted, slightly crooked homemade cake they deserve for making it through another year. Not judgmental-sad, because lord knows I could barely eke out this cake on Saturday, and it’s supposed to be, like, my calling, but empathetic-sad because I totally blame lousy, intimidating recipes for making the two-layer + frosting task seem not worth it to go it at home. When I think of someone being presented with some shortening spackled quarter sheet cake from a discount grocery chain on their birthday - a day they only get to celebrate once a year! Which is like forever if you’re a kid or perhaps the sort of grownup who didn’t get the memo that at the age of 34, birthdays are really not supposed to be a big deal anymore - it makes me sad. See you tomorrow….I’m pretty serious about birthday cakes. Please come back and join us tomorrow for a fun birthday bash to celebrate SugarPea Design’s 4th birthday. □ I hope this card makes you smile as well! That’s all from me today. Working with this monkey set always make me smile. Once all done, I adhered the flag to the card base and then stamped the sentiment & added some Nuvo enamel dots. I finished by adding a dot of white on the eyes. I decided to make my monkey’s eyes a bit bigger and drew a thin line under the eyes to make it look even sweeter. ![]() I first arrange the leaves and the flowers on the flag and then positioned the monkey. The flower and leaves are from Tropic Like It’s Hot. The monkey is from one of my favorite SPD sets, the Chunky Monkey set. I used the big flag from SugarCut Sitched Flags for my monkey’s base. So, for today card I thought I combine both. And that included many variety of monkeys! Indonesia is famous for its tropical weather as well as their amazing fauna. Coming from a tropical country, I sure can appreciate anything tropical. Today I have a tropical cards to share with you. ![]()
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