Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. Jeremiah 15:16
Timothy, Mr. Creative, decided that this year he wanted a Holy Bible birthday cake. He gave me specific instructions on how it should be made, what color it had to be (he insisted on black and I kept hinting that brown would be just fine), there needed to be a red bookmark with pointy ends and the pages needed to be gold. Oh yeah. And it HAD to say Holy Bible on it.
Yikes. How in the world could I do a cake like this?! I'm so thankful for my friend, Barb, who I happened to be telling about this cake that I had to make and she said, "I have an idea. Come over on Wednesday." That's when Barb introduced me to fondant! WooHoo! She was amazing! She had fantastic ideas of how to make the pages gold (yellow food paint with food grade glitter mixed in and then brushed onto white fondant), she had cut out letters for Holy Bible, she designed the red bookmark with pointy ends and made the beautiful black cover. In real life, it looked just like Grandpa's well-loved Bible! Did she do a fantastic job on this cake or what?!
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| Barb and her finished work of art! |
When the kids got home from school that day, they all hovered around the cake and one of the after-school kids said, "Holly Bibble? Who's that?" While I held back a giggle, Timothy ran over to the book shelf and pulled out his Bible and replied, "It's Holy Bible! Have you ever seen a real one? You can look up verses in here and everything!" and then he proceeded to look up some verses that he's memorized and told the kids that they can read this Bible any time they wanted because we have lots of them! What a witness he was. What a blessing.
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| Timothy's joy was undeniable! |
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| I made tabs with their names and ages. |
We did enjoy eating God's word in the form of a cake and we're so thankful for our sweet birthday boys, Timothy - 7 and Christopher - 5.
6 comments:
I love the cake Martha!! Great job!:)
Fondant is so flexible- that's why all the professional bakers use it for their designer cakes!
You two did a great job!
It is a great cake. Interesting story of Holly Bibble. Very sad, but I'm glad your kids had such a positive reaction. What a witness to us grownups as to another way we are supposed to be like children
And I loved the story behind the cake!
Timothy's going to be a preacher some day (^_^)
I read this on FB, and think it looked like a fantastic cake.
Great job on the cake!! I'm sure the kids just loved it!
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