If a picture is worth a thousand words, I thought this essay would be my first 5 figure word count. Watching our home movies, the only reliable scene each year is the blowing out of the candles on a birthday cake. Even though that's always in the videos, I don't neglect the stills. I really end up more comfortable with the still shot than the video; perhaps it's because our pictures are always doing a slide show on the monitor in the kitchen and we get to see them all the time. Anyway, I've got some good birthday cake pictures.
Here are some fancy store-bought wedding cakes, both for M&F's original in 1960 and the anniversary party this summer.
And of course, the wedding of the century in 1983.
For a bridge party early after we moved to the ATL, MA made a cake with edible flowers. Really.
But I digress - back to birthday cakes.
Eleanor's first birthday cake was a replica of what Granny Pearl used to make for Mary Anne - pound cake, pink icing and animal crackers.
Caroline is so cute at sister Sophia's 29th that it doesn't matter that the cake was a store bought from Rhodes Bakery. They did do a good job with their cakes, however.
By the late teens, the girls started making the cakes, and they got pretty artistic.
Mrs. Majors made a Humpty Dumpty for Eleanor's 16th:
Eleanor made a cake that looked like the Mercury Villager minivan for Caroline's 15th:
Elmo was Eleanor's 17th:
We had a dinasour/beach theme for boyfriend Bill's 20th:
This one may be my favorite. Bill made a cake that looked like Sparky for Caroline's 20th:
1 comment:
I am happy to see someone else always gets a shot of the cake at momentous occasions. Your post has inspired me to go back through our photos and find the history of our own family cakes!
And BOY, does Dunn look like your dad in 1960....
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