Annie's Purple Dino Cake

The day after Annie's 3rd birthday, Annie described the cake she would want for her 4th birthday, one year later: a purple-frosted, chocolate, dinosaur cake. "Like the Dino Park," she said.

Annie and Jude, at the "Dino Park," just down the street from us.
Don't ask me how she knows it tastes like chocolate.

Rebekah has an impressive cake resume (1) to her credit, but this was easily the kids' most daunting request to date. The request was not made less daunting when, the day before she was to make it, Jonathan reported from the grocery store that there were no chocolate mixes to be found. Unfazed, the master of culinary improvisations soldiered bravely into the challenge before her. This is her story (in pictures).

An Interview with Annie

The Process

                                               

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(1) Some of Bek's past cakes: