Father and Son (and Daughter) Cake Baking Contest - 2011

Last night was the 2011 Blue and Gold Banquet for our Cub Scout pack. It was a lot of fun and a lot of work to pull together, but our Cubmaster did the lion's share of the work. She deserves a lot of credit. Thankfully my wife reminded me to get her a small gift to thank our Cubmaster at the end of the ceremony. It was just a small gift but at least we were able to publicly thank her for her efforts.

Here are the kids' cakes they baked for the cake baking contest. They did most of the work this year and I think they did a great job. Ian's (above) is obviously our American flag and Cami's (below) is a husky dog. I think Ian was smart for simplifying his flag and not trying to make it have the accurate number of stars and stripes.

Ian won "The Most Patriotic" cake award and Cami won the "Man's Best Friend" award. They were happy with their cakes, but both were a little bummed that their cakes were not devoured by the attendees of the dinner. But, as I told them, there were a lot of cakes and most of them were only about 25% eaten.

The Bishops of our two wards did the judging, which was much appreciated by everyone. It was a great time and I think everyone was happy. Now it's on to the Pinewood Derby next month. The boys received their car kits last night! Hopefully their dads will let them get a chance of at least helping to make their cars.

Father & Son (and Daughter) Cake Bake

Last night was the 2010 Cub Scouts Blue and Gold dinner. This year marks the 100th anniversary of scouting in the United States. That was the theme for the Father & Son cake baking contest. Below is a series of pictures of the cakes that I and my kids made.

Stage 1: Use some black gel icing to draw the outline of our scouting character. This gel never did solidy, so we had to be very careful we didn't smear the black around as we filled in our other colors.

Stage 2: Start to fill in our spaces with other colors of icing.

Stage 3: We've finished filling our spaces, now on to spreading the icing around our image.

The completed cake! Ian won the "Most Artistic" award. They did not have a "Best" award last night, but I choose to believe that Ian's Most Artistic award means the best.

Here is Cami's cake. We used the same technique of using the black gel icing to draw out the earth figure.

After that we filled in the spaces with icing to make the ocean and the continents. Cami made up her own globe by not bothering to try and make actual earth continents (like North America and Africa). After that she wrote "Daisy Troop 663" on it.

Her completed cake! She won the "Most International" award last night.

It was a great dinner and everything went well. The boys' skit was really fun. They "baked" a cub scout by putting all sorts of boyish items into a trash can and stirring with a big paddle. At the end a real cub scout pops out. Ian was the one to pop out of the can. He had a really hard job of hunkering down in the can while everyone dropped things on him.

Ian was also excited that he was awarded his Bobcat award last night. We have a tradition of turning the boys upside down while the Bobcat award is pinned on. He can then turn it right-side up once he does a "good turn".

We had a great time and it was one of our better pack nights.