3 birthday cakes coming up... one for my 5 yr. old grandson- am doing

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elaine

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his name since he learned to write it this year and is very proud. One for my son-in-law - will have to think about that one.

The major one is for my 13 yr. old grand who is being Bar Mitzvahed. I have made him so many great cakes - dinosaurs that covered 2 picnic tables, 9 layer rainbow cakes, blue whale over

my whole dining room table so that now I am at a bit of a loss. I was thinking maybe a 13 layer cake - each

a different color and different color frosting.

Any ideas that you might have would be appreciated.

 
I have seen cakes decorated with "torah rolls" for Bar Mitzvah and I really like them.

I like it when the cake and food are linked to the party, and it sounds like you have made great cakes for your grandson before so you are a seasoned baker. (He's so lucky to have you. The dinosaur cake sounds awesome!)
I would never have made an attemt to decorate a cake with torah rolls, but if you pulled off a dinosaur, this would probably just be a piece of cake for you smileys/smile.gif

 
We are pretty secular so torah scrolls would not do it for him. His hobbies...

he is a computer game fanatic and now play station too. But he is learning guitar and loves it (just had an aha moment), does karate and swims. He is an authorized diver too. Read the Lemony Snickett series too.

Maybe a guitar!! Thanks for the inspiration.

 
the 13 layer cake sounds wonderful. Maybe color the icing in rainbow colors for in between layers?

might be easier than coloring the batter for the cake? and add some layers of fruit filling for variety: strawberry and lemon and blueberry etc. maybe vanilla cream with sliced kiwi for green.

 
I like these ideas - I will play around with the 13 layer idea and look at

guitars - I think he expects something big..........

Thanks all

 
LOL! old 2 left hands over here wouldn't know what to do - I am thinking of a guitar more ..

planning to do a template from his guitar if I
can get a hold of it when he is not around.

 
Actually, I was thinking of doing a tiered rainbow cake - 1 tiers since I have already done the 9

layers for him.
I am trying to think of 13 sizes of pans that I have so I could make a stack.

The regular rainbow cake is such a winner with all the kids. It is quite amazing.

 
Ha! Just be sure and dowell it well! You could probably do a square one easily

Without having 13 different sized pans. Just do a sheet or 1/2 sheet at a time and cut to size

 
great solution - thanks. I am thinking of sticking a picture of him on each layer - 1 from each year

 
cheese has a good idea of cutting from a sheet cake. Another vertical idea might be

a Yard stick version, that shows "years" with an edible photo next to each year. If you offset each year, you could make the photos 2" square.

My parents had a closet door where they would stand us up and mark off our heights each year. It got to be a little messy with all the kids--happily the GIRLS were always taller than the BOYS! Or at least until they hit 16 and then shot through the roof....one up to 6'4".

Depending on how many people will be cutting into the cake, a 6" square with 13 layers would end up around 20" high. That's doable if you put cardboard spacers and plastic rods for vertical support. However you wouldn't be able to slice through it continuously and that sounds like the fun part.

Last hint for tinting the batter. I've successfully covered a 12x3" piece of heavy cardboard with foil and used it as spacers in a large 12x18 pan to bake different batters.

 
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