David’s Fifth Birthday & A Betty Crocker Giveaway

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OK, OK.

Everyone keeps asking me when I’m going to post about David’s birthday.

My mom even called today to make sure I was alright, because I hadn’t blogged in a couple days.

Yeesh!

Give me a break here people.

I have been known to put the computer down, and spend time with my kids and do housework once in awhile.

Anyway, you can all stop asking, because here it is. I hope it lives up to your expectations.

Yes, David did indeed turn five on Sunday.

He came in and woke me up at 6 a.m. to ask if he was five yet. David has wanted to be five ever since he turned four. For some reason five is a magic number for him.

We gave David a new pair of roller skates and a few other little things. He outgrew his other pair this fall, and has wanted a bigger pair for months. He loves his new roller skates, and wears them around the house all day. Poor kid. There’s too much snow outside to try them out on the driveway.

We just had a small party with the four of us and David’s grandparents. Of course the grandparents all brought more loot for David.

We did a train theme so I gave David a special train engineer hat to wear. But he had to put on a party hat too. Baby brother Wade seemed to enjoy the party also.

A few weeks before David’s birthday My Blog Spark and Betty Crocker asked me if I’d try out the new birthday party planning ideas on the the Betty Crocker website.

I was so happy I’d agreed to do it when I went to the site, and found instructions for making a train cake.

David is obsessed with trains. Half his toys are trains. He even watches videos on YouTube of real trains going down the track just for fun.

I really am not very good at decorating cakes. But the train cake on Betty Crocker’s website looked doable. I watched the video, and the instructions and diagram were really helpful.

I actually pulled it off!

Here’s my creation.

David was thrilled with it.

If I can do this, anybody can. I’m not kidding when I say decorating cakes is not my forte. I really have to thank Betty Crocker, because honestly, without them asking, I never would have tried this. It was more personal to make David’s cake than just order it from the bakery. It made me feel a little like a Super Mom.

You can see my photos and story about making the cake on Whrrl.

Using a Betty Crocker cake mix, and pre-made Betty Crocker frosting was a big time saver. I just tinted the vanilla frosting with food coloring to get the colors I needed.

It did take me all day to make the cake. It was definitely a labor of love. And when I added up the cost of the supplies to make the cake, mostly because of all the candy, it about equaled the price of a small decorated bakery cake.

We just had a small party so we didn’t play games or send out invitations. But Betty Crocker has ideas for those, and even suggestions for dishes to serve at the party on their site. There are several party themes to choose from including a Magical Princess Party and a Robots Rule party. David would love the robot cake too.

So David had a great day.

Betty Crocker and My Blog Spark sent me a Flip Ultra video camera to record the day’s festivities. Here’s a video I put together.

And now for the giveaway.

My Blog Spark and Betty Crocker are giving away a prize pack that includes VIP coupons and all the baking tools you need to recreate the cake I made. To enter visit Betty Crocker, and look over their birthday party planning ideas. Come back here, and leave a comment about which cake you would like to try.

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The contest will end at 11:59 p.m. on January 22nd. Open to residents of the US only. Winner will be randomly drawn and notified by email.

Disclosure: My Blog Spark and Betty Crocker provided me with coupons for free cake mix and frosting. They also gave me a gift card to purchase other party supplies with, and the Flip Ultra video camera to record the party.

242 thoughts on “David’s Fifth Birthday & A Betty Crocker Giveaway”

  1. Looks like a great party! Sure do miss my family. It was great to see Mom & Dad in the video and your parents, too. Little Wade even made an appearance! I miss you all so much! Aaron and I cannot wait to be in America with you all. Though, we sure are enjoying the Queensland sunshine!

  4. I’d like to try the Inchworm Cake from the Just Bugging You Kids Party, because even I could make it!

  15. I would like to try and make the Pirate Party cake. Looks like something I could handle and is really cute.

  23. Next Monday I will be making the Mermaid cake for my granddaughters 4th birthday. She is crazy about Ariel. What a suprise that will be.

  26. The Pandas Forever cake is just tooooo cute! I definitely want to try that one.:-)

    Thank you.

  31. First of all, great job on the cake! I’d try the Shuttle cake-then do flying saucer cupcakes! Maybe with gummy bear pilots…

    I’ll never forget the time Mom spent so much time decorating a monster cake, and Dad dropped it on the way to the table!

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  33. I would like to try the Double-Chocolate Cappuccino Cake from ‘big on birthday bash’ for my husbands 50th

  34. Zoo-rrific Kids Birthday Party

    They are cupcakes actually but I hope they still count.

  39. My granddaughter has a birthday coming up soon, and the Princess Party cake would be perfect! Thanks!

  42. The cake I would like to try would be the Princess Party cake. Well, that is the one my niece would like to try that is. Please enter me.

  44. My grandson can’t wait to grow up so he can “be a fireman”: He’s 5. The firehouse party kit would be great- his birthday is March 19, so it would be nice.

  48. My little boy likes turtles so my favorite is:
    A Turtle-icious Birthday Party!

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  53. You did a beautiful job on your cake! I would love to attempt the Robot Cake for my little grandson.
    smchester at gmail dot com

  68. Ithink my kid would dig the Turtle-icious Birthday Party — cute cupcakes! Luckily Betty Crocker makes gluten-free mixes!

  91. My daughter and I are major Panda Fans! I was thrilled to see Pandas Forever Birthday Party! Way Cool!

  107. We actually made the Building Blocks cake for my oldest son’s birthday on Christmas and my youngest son would love me to make him the Dinosaur cake for his upcoming birthday.
    lisalmg25 at gmail dot com

  116. One Birthday Party down, where we made the Mermaid Cake one more to go on the 2nd of February. My youngest granddaughter will be three and we will make the butterfly birthday cake. It is so cute.

  118. Since my kids both have summertime birthdays we usually have outside parties. Love the flip flop cake. Very cute!

  119. My god-daughter would love to have the Princess Cake at her next party.
    Thanks for the giveaway!

  132. I would like to do the backward adult party with the cupcake cones. They’re cute and portable. 🙂

  141. I’d love to try the Princess cake… looks amazing! Thanks for hosting a great giveaway!

  167. I bookmarked the page with the rockstar guitar cake. I am going to make that next week for daughter’s 13th bday. Thanks for the link!

  171. I’d love to try making the Electric Guitar Cake! (something tells me mine won’t look as nice as that photo though, lol

  174. Your train is so great!

    I’d love to try the Turtlelicious cake for my Dad, he’d love it. 🙂

    Thank you!

  219. That’s a great train cake for a little boy. I would like to try to make the sweetheart birthday cake. Thanks for having the contest!

  223. I’d like to make the Candy Topped Cupcake Cones. I actually used to make these when I was a kid. I had a Betty Crocker Kid’s cookbook and this recipe was in it.

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