October 24, 2009, the birth of my grandson, Riley Matthew Soule. The day my life changed forever! From this day forward I have a reputation to uphold, be the Gigi with the goodies. This is a self imposed position I have made for myself. No one said I had to be the baking Grandma, I just knew I would love to have Riley grow up looking forward to Gigi's cakes. Riley's parents requested a banana cake since the little guy loves banana. I started thinking just a banana cupcake would do the trick, but then that seemed so small, so I bought a 6 inch round cake pan and made his cake a filled frosted mini version that any one year old would be proud of. I doubled the recipe and made the rest into cupcakes. Made a cream cheese frosting, tinted orange of course, and piped black frosting around the edges. Since the party had a Halloween theme (the children attending dressed in costume, as well as some adults) I decorated some of the cupcakes with ghoulish finger puppets, but I put dinosaurs on Riley's cake.
When these very brave parents informed me that there would be close to 30 people at this party I immediately panicked and started baking every night. I made a huge 3 layer red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. Using stencils I decorated the top with black sugar bats. (I hadn't used these before and they were not easy, the sugar bled outside the openings, I should have practiced 1st) Then I decided no birthday is complete without something chocolate, so Chocolate Cupcakes filled with cream cheese, toasted pecans, mini chocolate chips with a ganache icing.
I heard rumors from these partyers that Riley's personal cake was the favorite, of course I tried all and I think I agree, the baby got the best, just as it should be. Happy Birthday, Riley!
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