Saturday, September 17, 2011

Yo Ho Ho!

God bless my oldest - she has the same taste as her mama!  When I asked her what kind of cake she wanted for her 8th birthday she told she wanted a Johnny Depp cake.  This was way, WAY out of my league, but Captain Jack Sparrow?  This I can do!

I searched frantically online and even offered to buy her a cake and take in a photo of Johnny that they could put on it, but she didn't want a store cake.  She wanted MY cake.  How can I let her down?

I honestly spent weeks researching and then I finally found a Captain Jack sugar sheet.

This would prove to be my most nerve-wracking cake ever - I only get one shot at laying down the sugar sheet and while I did I demanded complete silence and crossed all of my fingers AND toes!  As you can see, it worked out pretty well.  The only down side is that all the ladies were fighting over who got to eat Johnny's face.  I will tell you that us adults had quite a nice time licking frosting off our Captain Jack paper plates.