Post by nightmist on Mar 30, 2015 17:17:15 GMT -5
In my family I bake the cakes.
Last year I asked my non-verbal autistic grandson what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday. He said with words "stwawberwy moo tote", which translates into strawberry mousse torte, which I make every year for his aunt. That was a very clear answer, so that is what I made.
Initially I had a notion to add some red to it so it wasn't so very pink. However some of the other kids who were going to be there are red dye sensitive, so I abandoned the idea. The boy loves red, but I figured he wouldn't care if his cake was pink. He certainly did not care what colour the cake was, nor did any of the other kids (mostly boys). His father and his Uncle (on his father's side) were quite incensed over it though, and suggested to my daughter that she was "raising him to be a fruit". Good thing I was in Buffalo, because if I had been there I would very very much have wanted to deck the pair of them for more reasons than I have fingers to count them up.
I am coming up on asking the lad what he wants this year. I am sorely tempted to make whatever he wants into a multi tiered extravaganza of rainbows and unicorns with massive clouds of pink spun sugar.
Thus I am asking for ideas on construction.
Usually I go for taste rather than appearance, but I have made honey pound cake bears, fairy princesses, rose gardens, and suchlike things in the past.
Bear in mind his birthday is at the end of April, so any fruit in it is either reconstituted freeze dried, or otherwise preserved. (freeze dried is less apt to have food dyes in it)
He is fond of transformers, dragons, and lining things up in neat rows according to size, shape. and colour.
At present I am leaning towards a sheet cake with a row of marzipan dragons in varying sizes and colours marching around it. I am just not sure how many other kids will be there, and I don't want to make too few dragons.
Give me some of your brilliance.
BTW I am not sure if his father will be there this year (or anything approaching sober if he is). While he visits his other kids fairly regularly, our lad has not seen him since last summer.
Yeah, the man is no great prize.
Last year I asked my non-verbal autistic grandson what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday. He said with words "stwawberwy moo tote", which translates into strawberry mousse torte, which I make every year for his aunt. That was a very clear answer, so that is what I made.
Initially I had a notion to add some red to it so it wasn't so very pink. However some of the other kids who were going to be there are red dye sensitive, so I abandoned the idea. The boy loves red, but I figured he wouldn't care if his cake was pink. He certainly did not care what colour the cake was, nor did any of the other kids (mostly boys). His father and his Uncle (on his father's side) were quite incensed over it though, and suggested to my daughter that she was "raising him to be a fruit". Good thing I was in Buffalo, because if I had been there I would very very much have wanted to deck the pair of them for more reasons than I have fingers to count them up.
I am coming up on asking the lad what he wants this year. I am sorely tempted to make whatever he wants into a multi tiered extravaganza of rainbows and unicorns with massive clouds of pink spun sugar.
Thus I am asking for ideas on construction.
Usually I go for taste rather than appearance, but I have made honey pound cake bears, fairy princesses, rose gardens, and suchlike things in the past.
Bear in mind his birthday is at the end of April, so any fruit in it is either reconstituted freeze dried, or otherwise preserved. (freeze dried is less apt to have food dyes in it)
He is fond of transformers, dragons, and lining things up in neat rows according to size, shape. and colour.
At present I am leaning towards a sheet cake with a row of marzipan dragons in varying sizes and colours marching around it. I am just not sure how many other kids will be there, and I don't want to make too few dragons.
Give me some of your brilliance.
BTW I am not sure if his father will be there this year (or anything approaching sober if he is). While he visits his other kids fairly regularly, our lad has not seen him since last summer.
Yeah, the man is no great prize.