{"id":2114,"date":"2012-04-23T10:20:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2012-04-22T22:20:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T03:20:58","slug":"making-a-baseball-and-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/making-a-baseball-and-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a Baseball and Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cake, that is. With Sam’s second birthday just<\/em> around the corner (AAAAAAACK!), I’ve started thinking about what to do for his birthday cake. I had about decided I’d do the busy-working-mom thing and order a cake from Kroger. But when I stopped by Sara’s house to drop off a Blues Clues cake pan (because she’s a good Mommy who never considered buying a cake \ud83d\ude42 ), I mentioned maybe doing a sports theme for Sam’s birthday and seeing if I could find a cake that looked like a basketball or baseball. Sara offered to loan me the pans she used last year for Lily’s caterpillar cake<\/a>. So, I decided to do a test run on making a baseball and basketball cake.<\/p>\n

Here’s the box for the pans:<\/p>\n

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Wilton ball pans<\/p><\/div>\n

Cakes baked and cooling in the pans:<\/p>\n

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Cakes cooling on the rack (I was secretly thrilled that they came out so nicely):<\/p>\n

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And yes, I purposely spaced them far apart on the cooling rack, so as to avoid any anatomy references.<\/p><\/div>\n

Baseball cake in the works:<\/p>\n

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This one shows some icing and the strawberry glaze.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Just over half-way iced.<\/p><\/div>\n

Completed baseball cake:<\/p>\n

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The lacing really was more red than this looks, but it was as sloppy as it looks. I<\/p><\/div>\n

Completed basketball cake (sorry, I got too into the decorating and forgot to take “during” pics of the basketball):<\/p>\n

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Pretty nifty, huh?<\/p><\/div>\n

Now, if you can’t tell, these cakes are pretty small, so I think we’ll probably put them on a sheet cake or have sheet cake in addition to them. But this non-bakey, non-cooky, non-crafty Momma is pretty darn proud of this test run! (And Daddy tells me they taste really good!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cake, that is. With Sam’s second birthday just around the corner (AAAAAAACK!), I’ve started thinking about what to do for his birthday cake. I had about decided I’d do the busy-working-mom thing and order a cake from Kroger. But when I stopped by Sara’s house to drop off a Blues Clues cake pan (because she’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-d-2010","category-crafty-projects","category-samuel-lewis","category-yay-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}