Cakes to make you smile (or laugh out loud!)...

Okay, so I don't profess to be a professional cake decorator! But my children have always gotten a kick out of our homemade birthday cakes and often join in the fun of planning how to decorate them.

I'm heading to Splash!, the wave pool in Springfield, with a van full of ten-year old boys to celebrate my son's birthday, hence the Teddy Grahams swimming and floating in the water for this year's cake...

And from previous years, a castle with a fruit punch moat...

...a pirate ship

and a deserted island with a pretzel shack.


Have a good laugh on me!