And the little person growing inside that it represents. For our newest little one, we decided to have a little cake party to answer the big question - boy or girl?
The basics of how it went down - we had our first ultrasound kind of late - I was already at about 18 weeks. Our ultrasound tech was able to determine gender, but instead of telling us there (for anyone who hasn't been to Mt. Sinai, it's not exactly a romantic or personal type of atmosphere...) we asked the tech to put the answer into an envelope and seal it. She handed us the sealed envelope and we stored it at home on our wine cabinet for about a week before we decided to throw a cake party!
After pricing around and seeing what our options might be, I ended up ordering our cake from Whole Foods in the South Loop. Not only did they have a great price for a really delicious cake, but the bakery team is awesome! And they had done a baby cake like this before, so they knew that they had to keep the insides a secret from me (the cake orderer). I've been craving donuts and chocolate, so I ordered a chocolate cake with vanilla butter cream frosting and chocolate ganache over everything. The trick about this is that the bakery team had to color the inside frosting either pink or blue to indicate if we're having a boy or a girl. Then Don and I (&Annalee) would find out with everyone else if we're having a boy or a girl when we cut into the cake. Awesome, right?!
Here's some pictures of us cutting into the cake...
I was pretty sure I knew what color the icing was, but not completely positive - it looked kind of purple-ish maybe. So we consulted the ultrasound photo we had given to the bakery team...
And there it was - plain as day - "it's a boy!" The delicious frosting was blue, not purple! :)
And here's a picture of our number one reveling in the goods...
Delicious cake, great friends and family - all in all a really great way to find out the answer to that all important question "he or she?". And yes, for anyone out there looking to unload some baby boy clothes - we LOVE hand-me-downs... ;)
And now to figure out where our little guy is going to sleep...
After pricing around and seeing what our options might be, I ended up ordering our cake from Whole Foods in the South Loop. Not only did they have a great price for a really delicious cake, but the bakery team is awesome! And they had done a baby cake like this before, so they knew that they had to keep the insides a secret from me (the cake orderer). I've been craving donuts and chocolate, so I ordered a chocolate cake with vanilla butter cream frosting and chocolate ganache over everything. The trick about this is that the bakery team had to color the inside frosting either pink or blue to indicate if we're having a boy or a girl. Then Don and I (&Annalee) would find out with everyone else if we're having a boy or a girl when we cut into the cake. Awesome, right?!
Here's some pictures of us cutting into the cake...
I was pretty sure I knew what color the icing was, but not completely positive - it looked kind of purple-ish maybe. So we consulted the ultrasound photo we had given to the bakery team...
And there it was - plain as day - "it's a boy!" The delicious frosting was blue, not purple! :)
And here's a picture of our number one reveling in the goods...
Delicious cake, great friends and family - all in all a really great way to find out the answer to that all important question "he or she?". And yes, for anyone out there looking to unload some baby boy clothes - we LOVE hand-me-downs... ;)
And now to figure out where our little guy is going to sleep...
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