The Winnie the Pooh Cake

The dream has become a reality! Many said it could not be done, but they don't have the frosting color mixing skills that we do.

First, start with one regular sized 6" round cake pan for "the body," and 4 large cup cakes, baked in cupcake pans that can be found at any standard wal-mart at 7:00 pm on your daughters birthday.

Bake any flavored cake mix you like based on the box directions, we used rainbow chip because "pooh" is just the name of the bear, (get it). (Kristi isn't laughing as hard as I am right now, I don't think she gets it.)

After baking cake and cupcakes, cut tops off cupcakes and then cut the stems in half and arrange for the ears, hands and feet. Keep one cup cake big for the head.

Next, mix buttercream frosting. We mixed (and this is the important part) yellow and red to make orange. Than just use red for the shirt. Some people put chocolate chips for the eyes, but that looks freaky, so we didn't.

Then, you add your standard "1" year old big candle and you are good to go!!

Finally, force your one-year-old to stay up until 10:00 at night so you can have a "bear-ific" good time, (don't forget the one-year-old.)

It's imortant to leave all forms of "clean-up" material out of reach!

This cake is definetly best when eaten with TWO hands!

Thank you everyone for all the presents, cards, calls, and most importantly, birthday song videos! Special shout out to Tanner and Ellie, Mckinnley and Aidie, Jentri and Emma, best cousins in the world.

Whew, i'm tired from all this guest blogging, I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did. Love you guys!!!!!!