The Day We Baked a Cake

We have a book in Spanish about a pig who baked a cake for his bear-friend's birthday. Other animals come over in the cake-baking process who help sample the cake - complete with a cream topping and strawberries. By the time Mr. Bear makes it, most of the cake is gone, but he is still thrilled with the thoughtfulness of his friends and declares it the best birthday ever.

J.K. just loves this book and asks to read it all the time! So, the other day, we decided to bake the same recipe that Mr. Pig baked since it was conveniently shared at the back of the book. J.K. declared himself the bear who was having the birthday, but I assured him that we didn't have to be celebrating a birthday in order to have chocolate cake. :) J.K. and Miss C helped in the actual baking of the cake, while Little J and J.K. assisted me with the decorating. They had a blast, and we got a lot of mileage out of that cake (3 meals worth). It wasn't the best chocolate cake I've ever had, but seeing the children's delight in making story-book cake was a ton of fun!

As you can see, we didn't have fresh strawberries on hand, but chopped-up-chocolate-bar-and-banana decorations still brought smiles!