Queen of Cakes

My wife is an excellent all around chef. She doesn't have a restaurant, she doesn't work in a restaurant, but she serves the five of us some of the best meals on the planet. And I'm not just bragging!

But she also likes to bake cakes. She has a ritual of asking each of us what kind of cake we want for our birthday and this year our youngest chose Dora the Explorer. Not one to get one of those screened cakes, my wife hand crafted and hand painted a special cake for our little one.

So here is this year's first in the series of the summer birthday cakes:

And that made for one happy birthday girl: