Maggie has been planning her birthday since December. We've known for quite a while that it's going to be a Mickey Mouse party. For a while, Maggie was hoping to get a stuffed Minnie Mouse as a companion to her faithful Mickey, but my mom found my old one in her attic, so that was taken care of. But we quickly moved on to bigger wishes/demands. At dinner a few weeks ago, Maggie announced, "I'm havin' a moon bounce at my party. A pink one. And you're going to get it for me." To say the least, I was shocked at how certain Maggie was that the moon bounce was going to happen. I asked, "Who do you know who's had a moon bounce at their party?" Pause... "Me." Insert giant roll of the eyes here.
Having called the ONE moon bounce guy in WV (yeah, I caved, partially because I wanted to see what my grandparents would do when a giant, blow-up princess castle arrived in their back yard) and finding out that he was booked, I came up with another cool idea. A Mickey cake. Easy, right? I made a killer treasure chest cake for my son's birthday so this would be great. I ebay'd it and...holy cow, $35 bucks for a cake pan? No way. So I waited...and waited...and got outbid...and finally got an awesome cake pan. That arrived on Friday. We left on Thursday. Which left me totally stressed (as if I wasn't already) about how the heck to make a Mickey cake for my adorable/demanding daughter.
I'm not going into even more detail of how we got here, but the end result was a slightly sunburned, kind of odd Mickey cake that tasted really, really good. Don't let the gray frosting scare you.
When I returned, a lovely package awaited me at my front door. Anyone in the market for a top-notch Wilton Mickey cake pan?
