Kind Of Excited I Share A Bond With Princess Kate

I discovered recently that Kate Middleton and I have something in common.  Well, to be honest, I’m sure there’s a lot of us that do.  I read recently that Kate loves to bake cakes for her kids birthdays.  Me too, Kate!  Me too.

It’s something my mom did for all of us kids in the Buchanan house as long as I can remember.  I know she took some sort of cake decorating class because for a while we had some really cool cakes!!!  One was a Holly Hobby cake.  I remember it well.

My mom always made the homemade cakes ‘with love’ in our house.   If I remember right, there was an orange cake stand she used a lot that I believe she made in a ceramics class.

I don’t know about you, but our cakes always had money in them too.  Not big bucks, but we got quarters, and dimes and nickels and penny’s.   Sometimes a button.  I remember racing through pieces of cake to find more money.   At the time it was a big deal.  You could get a lot of penny candy if you had the change.  (smile)

My youngest daughter recently celebrated her 18th birthday, and after being at a family gathering recently, we were talking about “the good ole days” (smile) and birthdays came up and money in the cakes, so I thought I would do that for my daughter.  My kids have never had the experience of finding money in the cake until now.  I know, hygiene.  Dirty money.  (smile) I survived it as a kid and I survived it this time too since it seems I was the one sneaking the most cake this year.  Hey, at got most of my own money back. Score.  (smile)

I love hearing that Princess Kate loves to stay up late, making the cakes for her kids.   I don’t know if she makes it from scratch or not.  Maybe she does.  I don’t.  I open the box and mix it up.  And I lick the beaters, the spoon and the bowl. (smile)  Perks of baking it yourself.

Every year the challenge is to create something different than the year before and to have a different theme than the other kids.

This year I was in a hurry and ended up with a lopsided, broken cake.  (smile)  I called it the saddest cake I ever made.  It was still good though.

Prince Louis by the way, just celebrated his sixth birthday.  I wonder if Kate’s cake looks as good as mine.  (smile)

Happy Birthday Prince Louis.  

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This post was written by Carrie Buchanan