I try, I really do. I try to give my kids the most memorable and fun birthday parties! I have 5 kids and I don't work, so most parties are at our house. I try to give them something special, like Saturday, my six year old had a the sweetest teaparty and invited her classmates.
Gilrs and boys came and we provided dress up clothes for all of them. It was really fun. We collected old tea cups from thrift stores and the kids picked out one to use during the party and then got to take it home. I made the teapot and teacup cookies. It was an awesome party.
At least until the cake! Of course it was my first teapot cake and it went beautifully. But I forgot to make the handle and spout in advance. I realized it did not have time to dry.
I thought I remembered reading that you can stick them in the oven to dry.................I WAS WRONG! I was thinking of gumpaste, not fondant!
So I send hubby to the store for premade rice krispy treats. He brings home the generic brand and they are hard as a brick!!!! I had the hardest time shaping them. They were too heavy, so I was going to add them at the last second.
Well hubby walks in and says what are you doing? That looks just like a penis! 
I'm like, really? It really did!
Then my daddy of all people walks in looks at the cake and says, why don't you just cut the spout off a little and it won't be so heavy? (uh, why didn't I think of that? 
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It looked so much better after I trimmed it! Thankfully no one else saw it before the surgery! 
Below are the before and after.......ENJOY!
oh my interesting its not that bad though i wouldent have even thought of anything like trimming it im glad everything turned out for you
That is the funniest story!! I LOVE IT!!
And the cake looks great! (after, of course!)
OMG!! That's so funny!! It turned out really cute either way though!
despite the challenge, your cake is precious.. you did a great job! Save the other photo for a good laugh when the kids are older 
Aaagh! You circumcised the teapot!
LOL Seriously, though, I didn't think it looked that naughty before, but it sure did look cute afterwards! Great job on the cake and what a wonderful idea for the party!
Boy did she! I don't think any of us would want her performing a circumcision on our sons! Funny story. My dh with his mind always in the gutter would have thought the same thing. I don't think it was that bad, but I really like the cute little short spout! Precious cake!
Oh how funny... sounds exactly like something that'd happen to me!!! Great save!
That cake is darling and the party idea sounds wonderful!
And even looking at the before picture, I wouldnt of thought of that. But that must be a guy thing. My DH does the same thing when Im making something. Or if he calls and asks what Im doing and I say Baking, he makes a comment about how I shouldnt be doing drugs with the kids. I guess its their humor. Men!
But great job!
I am in such a big hurry....just checking in, but I'm sure ya'll would find it even more hilarious if I told you I am a pastor's wife! hehe!
So it was my PREACHER husband who walked in and said that to me!
I can hear the talk now! Did ya'll see the dirty cake the preacher's wife made the children? What's wrong with her!
It reminds me of the time Ray's mother made a sculpture and everyone saw something she did NOT on Everybody Loves Raymond! Too funny!
That is too funny! A similar thing happened to me. Take a look in my photos at my Veggie Tales cake. Take a close look at the asparagus. I was so proud of those figures! I wasn't home when the customer came & picked up the cake. It just so happened that I work with the customer. The cake was for her little boy. One day @ work we pulled up the cake pic. to show some other co-workers. A few of them started snickering, & I had no idea why. Then she told me to take another look at the asparagus. I was so embarrassed. Of course, none of the little boys noticed it & the mother just thought it was so hilarious. Mind in the gutter!
lol. thanks messybaker for this story. I needed a good laugh today.
Too funny! And I can relate. I was working on a green fondant "1" for my cousin's daughter's birthday cake, and I swear for a while it looked like I was gonna put Shrek's penis on that cake! I worked on it a little while longer until it wasn't QUITE so bad, but my cousin and his wife still cracked up at the big green penis on their daughter's cake. Good thing my cousins have a sense of humor!
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has put a penis on a child's birthday cake!
lecrn, that Veggie Tales cake is awesome! You can't help that she (the asparagus) looks like a penis! Seriously, those figures are perfect!
And Laura, shrek's penis? That is so funny! Poor child will never be the same!
Oh my, I've just typed the word penis three, oops, four times! I must move on to another thread!
I know from experience that it's very difficult to do a teapot cake *without* it ending up looking vaguely phallic 
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Here is mine from my dd's birthday party last year 0 you can't see it, but it had a rather large...ummm..."sack" towards the bottom of the spout :
What a cute story! I love your cake it is so pretty and girly. How did you get smooth BC on the ball/teapot. Sometimes surgery does wonders! The end product is just perfect! 
missmeg- funny teapot, gorgeous daughter!
AmyGonzalez- I just used the cake icer tip to apply buttercream then smoothed with a spatula as much as possible. Then I rolled with my handy dandy foam roller! Couldn't live without my roller! (thanks Mel)
I really want an excuse to make another one so I can make the handle and spout with fondant and let it dry. The ones I had made would have been so pretty! Grrrrr!
Every birthday should have a special story--now you have one LOL!
You should do a scrapbook page of the before and after to make a record of the story!
The coke looks great!
MessyBaker, Thats how I thought you did it. I use the exact same technique, but have never done it on a ball. I'll have to try it soon. And I agree, I could not live without my best friend in the kitchen...My handy dandy high density roller!
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