Shane's iPad Cake

So somebody had a birthday yesterday.

38 years old this guy is.

He may be born on April Fool's but we have made it a family rule that BECAUSE he is born on April Fool's we will never play any April Fool's jokes on him.  

It makes him exempt. 

(we may have learned this the hard way in prior years. :) )

So, as is custom for me, since Owen's first birthday when my neighbor, Jenalee, taught me how to make special cakes for the people I love according to what the interests of that person are at the time, I made Shane a special cake.  

For Owen, at age one, it was an Elmo cake. (pretty easy)

For Shane, at age 38, it was an iPad cake. (not as easy)

*(I fear for future reference if I do give credit to Olivia now for helping me come up with this idea I shall hear it for the rest of eternity.  So let it be known, Olivia came up with the iPad idea!)

But then...I had to figure out how to do it.

Now let it be known, this is simply a labor of love.  

I'm no professional (obviously) and I have no special tools, so what I do I make up as I go along or try to find a YouTube video to help me out.

This was my second fondant cake ever.

Here is what I came up with:

Shane is taking an App Design class for his PhD right now and is really enjoying it...and spending plenty of time on it.  That's how I knew he was interested in it...you see how that works.

So that's where I came up with the oh so clever: h"APP"y birthday.  

That wasn't Olivia at all.  That was all me. :)

The many hours this cake took was worth it to see how excited Shane was about it.

He loved it! :)

We didn't have 38 candles, but I did have a 3 and eight other candles that Lana tried to put on the cake in the shape of an 8.  Can you tell?

Here is Shane making a wish.  

I'm hoping it was for a million dollars...or world peace I guess.

Let's hope it comes true...

...whatever it was. :)