My granddaughter Alyssa turned the page on being an 8 year old and stepped into her 9th year on April 21st. We hopped into the car from Miami and headed for the big 'to-do' in Ocala, where she lives with her mom.
Needless to say, it was a frenzied affair. We drove north for 4 hours with all my
supplies early Friday in order to prepare Alyssa’s cake. I naturally always leave something behind, but I worked it out. The cake was completed by 2:30 AM.
The theme: Alyssa requested Shoes and Purses...
My response, "Huh?.. and what
do I do? My girl is not even a tween. Heavy sigh! So... I did the grandmotherly thing and created gilry flats out of sugar
and a simple purse confectioned out of cake.
I was told the party included a group of ten at the local Ocala roller rink. So I said to Alyssa, 'I’ll make you a little
cake that looks like a purse.' We sat down in front of our home computer and we designed the cake of all cakes! Voila! We now had a 3 tier cake in the rising.
In my mind I could hear mom, Monica, saying, "how exaggerated, Nancy!”
My response, "Come on, Monica... she is my granddaughter!" I hear this every year and aren’t I allowed?
So to please both Mom and Alyssa, I made the bottom layer a 'dummy' cake; dummy as in Styrofoam. The middle layer is Alyssa’s favorite - chocolate. The purse was all vanilla with a pinch of Coco rum.
I threw in some miniature high heels
from little cupcakes and boxed them in clear boxes as favors; I confess, I went crazy with
purses and heel cookies. I found cardboard purses at QualityWholesale and stuffed them with flavored lip glosses as goodie bag items. True that, I had
more fun getting everything together than when I used to coordinate my own children's birthday partys; Ah, to be a grandmother. Sweet!
Oops. Lastly, I dressed up fancy-like to the Roller Rink in
Ocala, nothing like Miami, life is simpler in there. The good news; everyone there approached us to pay homage to Alyssa’s cake, cookies
and mini cupcake shoes. The good folks came by to take pictures. How funny! A good time was had by all and my Alyssa was happy. It's a good life!
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