My mother-in-law has always baked birthday cakes for the boys — as I mentioned last week, it’s only been in recent years that my husband started to decorate them. This year he chose a simple design for our superhero-obsessed boy: Captain America’s shield.
This cake was huge — how huge was it? The platform it’s sitting on is a table topper, which my mother-in-law wrapped in starry paper to match the cake’s theme.
It was also delicious. My boy loves vanilla, so she obliged with a yummy, moist vanilla cake, vanilla pudding filling, and vanilla buttercream frosting. So good! Here is the moment it was brought out:
Time to blow out the candles!
The surprise was, there was a second cake — you can see it on the left there. It is an arc-reactor cake that, thanks to our friend S, could light up.
Aidan tries to blow out the arc reactor 😀
Since the larger cake fed everyone at the party, I decided to bring the arc-reactor cake to Aidan’s school on Monday. His classmates loved that it lit up and had many nice things to say about the yummy cake. I saved the last piece for my boy to have after dinner. Thank you for the yummy cakes, Gran!
Casa de Berry 
I’ve made some fun cakes before but never ones that cool. A light up cake! how awesome is that!
It was pretty darn awesome – I think we should have light-up cakes from now on 😀
Would it be possible to get directions for lighting up the arc reactor?? 🙂
Hi Tammy – it was made by our electrical engineer friend with stuff he had laying around, but we would have used something like this closet light otherwise – http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?SKU=12134762