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The first week of September brings two birthdays in my household. Landing right amongst the flurry of fall activities. At this point I really should be better prepared, but I'm not, every year the craziness catches me off guard.

First, there is my husband's birthday.
I would like to point out that my husband doesn't eat cake. But, for some reason, I have to make him one anyway. Fortunately I have discovered the joy of the mini cake so we weren't stuck with absolutely obscene amounts of cake in our house. 
The man who doesn't like cake, is also, as I've probably said before, a Star Wars dork. This year he requested a Jawa. I try to know as little about Star Wars as possible, but I will tell you that Jawas live on a desert planet and they are scavengers and they like hamburgers. Maybe I shouldn't try hand out Star Wars knowledge. But, I'm pretty sure that this Jawa does like hamburgers. 
This is banana cake with cream cheese icing as a filling. It's covered primarily in chocolate fondant.

Two days after his birthday is my oldest's birthday. This year she had to take her birthday treat to school the day after daddy's birthday. I really didn't think this through and felt really rushed with this project.

The birthday girl asked for lemon and coconut cake. Really, she did. I had already bought everything to make strawberry cake though, because she always wants strawberry, because it's pink. Kids always have to change things up on you. We decided to try for strawberry lemonade cupcakes, but she didn't give me much direction on how to decorate them. 
She loves High School Musical and after much searching I found this super cute cakelet from Cupcake Envy. This is no where near as cute or well executed but it served it's purpose, which was to not make the cupcakes look so random. Because I'm crazy. Because I'm sure a room full of 2nd graders really could care less about the "theme" of the cupcakes. They're just happy if they get to eat one.

And of course we had to have cake for her actual birthday, because if I have learned one thing, it's that a birthday isn't a birthday without cake.
I went the mini cake route again, this one is chocolate coconut cake with coconut cream filling. My daughter came up with the flavor again, she's apparently big into combining flavors right now.
It's a dance bag, made to look, at least in colors, slightly like her own dance bag.

Little ballet and jazz shoes, as they are the dance classes that she takes.

Thankfully, we decided to to her birthday party a little later in the month. So, I didn't have a big cake to do for her, but I did agree to make a cake for a friend. Don't know what I was thinking!

In the midst of all my family's birthdays, I made this chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream for her husband's 30th birthday. It's covered in marshmallow fondant and the design for the bra was piped with royal icing.