Happy Birthday Anna

Once a year Maya decides to have a birthday for her favourite stuffed animal, her cat named Anna. Maya made all of the pony placemats and promised to help me with the cake. She requested a strawberry pony cake. Now everyone knows I have mad skills with cakes so this was going to be a real piece of cake! I went ahead and made a chocolate one because it is not strawberry season and chocolate cakes are the easiest to make anyway. I figured I would slap on the pink frosting, call it strawberry and we would be good as gold. Due to Maya's immense intelligence, she was able to infer from the dark colour of the batter that it was not strawberry. I told her I didn't have the ingredients for strawberry cake. She said "OHHH 'cause you don't have any strawberry cocoa huh mum?" Sigh. I didn't fell like going into the cocoa explanations so I just agreed. I know it is going to haunt me when she leaves home and ventures off to the store to find strawberry cocoa. OH well, I am sure her and her roomies will have a good laugh over it all. Maybe by writing this down I will remember to tell her. I was also lacking the appropriate food colouring but Maya was understanding about it seeing as to the girls were the ones that used up all the red the other day when they were busy putting fake blood (aka my red food colouring) all over themselves to fool Mac. I decided it was time to hand over the reigns and I let them decorate the cake all themselves. I know they are still a ways away from one of my creepy masterpieces but I did give them a start with the pastel. It won't be long now...