As a mother of three, we were invited to many a kid’s birthday parties. A lot of moms would have the cutest cakes and themes for their kiddos. I would be in awe of the details, all matching stuff, and the themed homemade birthday cake.
So after I had my second child, I vowed to be one of these moms. I signed up for a cake decorating class at my local Micehals store and my new hobby was born.
Now let’s back up to my childhood, my mom did excel in many things but being crafting was never her strong suit. At one of my baby showers, we crafted and she had no idea how to say Hodge Podge, let alone know what it is or what you use it for.
So growing up we did not craft, we didn’t make things, we didn’t have many hobbies as a family except going on vacation, going to the beach, and swimming so any wonder why I do what I do and love the beach so much.
I fell in love with making and decorating cakes for my kid’s birthdays. I start asking my kids months before their birthday what theme would they like. My middle was very into Minnie Mouse so we did quite a few parties on her. You can do so many things with Mickey or Minnie.
For my youngest’s 4th birthday, he wanted a fish cake with the candle in the eyeball. And here it is, it was a fun cake to make.
Every party had a theme, with matching invitations, decorations, favors, and cake of course, or cupcakes. And I loved it, we celebrate birthdays lavishly at our house.
We celebrate half birthdays too, we call them Halfy Birthdays, haha. I do it up, I search Pinterest because c’mon now, where else would look.
When my oldest was younger she said “Mom, your cakes are so pretty, you should open a store called Cakes Pretty!” We actually put a sign on our front window for Cakes Pretty and she was pretty disappointed that nobody came to our door asking for a cake.
And that is how Cakes Pretty was born.