Man Cake the Sequel

Here is a photo of my cart from my last visit to Everyday's a Party store. This was a combination bachelorette party/ Harry Potter movie/ jello shots trip.

After word got out about the Man Cake, it wasn't long before I was asked to make another. I decided to try one that was gluten-free, since they now make some great mixes, and one of the guests cannot eat any gluten.

This bed was a silver sateen box-stitched coverlet with purple sheets.

Again with all the pillows!

This bed ended up being big enough for a harem! A big, gluten-free harem.

I don't mind that Paige photo-bombed this shot because while I was getting the cake together, she was working on the cupcakes.

Creamcicle Cupcakes- orange-flavored cupcakes with fluffy vanilla frosting. Decorations were penis-shaped pencil erasers perched on bamboo skewers.

Gluten-free mocha cupcakes, and chocolate shot glasses.

The cupcake wrappers read on the bottom, "A Balanced Diet is a Cupcake in Each Hand".

The penis pencil erasers were found at Everyday's a Party. Great back-to-school item! Health class?

My only problem with the vast selection of penis items at Everyday's a Party is that they do not carry any natural penises. With many grooms owning a natural penis, and all the penis items circumcised, intact grooms may not feel represented.

I had the idea to buy peach fruit-roll-ups and fashion little foreskins for all the penises, but at my store, fruit-roll-ups only come in blue, strawberry and tie-dye. I did not think that foreskins being deprived of oxygen, or perhaps raw ones, or hippie ones were very 'natural'.

While there may be a time and place for psychedelic foreskins, they just didn't seem to fit in with this party theme.

My search for natural penis-shaped items for bachelorette parties reminds me of the time (back in the dark ages of breastfeeding acceptance) when I could only find baby gift wrapping paper with baby bottles all over it.

[I am an avid breastfeeder, and encourage breastfeeding in any woman (or man) who desires to do so. I felt that giving the mom-to-be a gift wrapped in pictures of bottles sent a mixed message.]

So I bought the wrapping paper, wrapped the gift, and opened up my husband's Penthouse magazine. I cut out all the breasts from the pictures, and glued a set over every picture of a bottle on the gift. My gift sat proudly on the table among the teddy bears, storks, and rubber ducks, and since all of those also featured pictures of bottles, it didn't take long for guests to figure out what the glued-on breasts were covering up. It got a lot of laughs, even with the little old ladies. After all, how can the very symbol of nurturing be offensive on a baby gift?

I'll continue my search for natural penis items, in hopes to put them on future cupcakes.

As the intactivists say, "If men were meant to have foreskins, they would have been born with them."

In the meantime, I found this Zatanna doll in Walmart, right next to the Pussy Galore doll.

Any cake ideas?

Man Cake

I wanted to make a cake for a bachelorette party that featured a man in a bed. In the toy aisle of Walmart, I found several action figures that were very muscular and manly, but they had clothes molded/ painted on. The guy in my Man Cake would not have on full fighting gear!

I needed a topless guy, one that could possibly be naked, or wearing boxers. I walked over to the wrestler section, and bingo! shirtless men!

If I ever get the opportunity to make a cake for gay bachelors,

these are the guys I'll use.

A good choice- shirtless, and though only my friend Kevin C. would wear jeans and a belt to bed, this could work.

Then I noticed most, if not all the wrestlers have what I call a "masturbation hand"; an open fist positioned near the vicinity of this activity. Why do they have this? In other action figures, it's to hold weapons such as spears, swords, guns... but wrestlers do not take any such items into the ring with them. Occam's razor suggests that instead of smuggling weapons into the ring, these wrestlers spend quite a bit of private time in the locker room.

See what I mean?

This is the guy I chose for the cake, because he bore a slight resemblance to the groom.

Measuring for size. I wish he wouldn't wear his boots in the bed like that.

Cake was frosted with chocolate mousse frosting, then the fondant fitted sheet was put on. Marshmallow pillows help him find a comfortable, yet sexy sleeping position. Chocolate headboard was made by pouring melted chocolate into the bottom of a gladware container.

Fondant quilted coverlet, and more pillows. My husband teases me about my "nesting pod" of a thousand pillows, but when it comes to pillows, more is more.

And more pillows!

Ready to party!

Two Random Thoughts

Something about my kids, an anvil and a rubber mallet...

My no-stick pan will now only be no-stick if I no-cook in it!

Walmart's new line of plus-size jewelry, spawning "yo momma" jokes across the nation:

"Yo momma so fat she wear plus size earrings!"