Well, it's time to get this October PTR back on track since it derailed into a
Disneyland PTR for awhile there.
We haven't been doing too much planning...we are waiting until we are a bit closer to book airfare and a rental car. But it's never too early to start planning for cake!
Since the Wednesday of our trip week will be Paxton's 2nd birthday, I definitely want to get him a birthday cake. I figured we'd spend the day at Magic Kingdom until we can't go anymore and spend the evening at Bonnet Creek. We'll actually use the full kitchen this time and cook something for dinner, probably tacos, then have cake & ice cream to sing Happy Birthday.
My first thought was obviously a Disney cake!
So I started poking through the pictures on the
Cake Chatter Thread and I really loved some of the cakes. Most of them are the fondant covered fancy cakes, but I'm planning to get one of those for his birthday party, so I definitely don't need anything that spectacular (or expensive!) for his Disney birthday. This cake is the one that really made me want a Disney cake!
My first thought was that we could get it made at the Contemporary Bakery and stop there on the monorail as we were leaving MK to pick it up. But then I researched more and found out the only bakery where you can pick up is the Boardwalk Bakery. That's starting to sound like a hassle from leaving MK. I'm sure all of us will be together that day, and we will have 2 separate cars, so one of us could go to the bakery to pick it up while the others go back to the resort. They have small 6 or 8 inch cakes that would be plenty for the 4 of us and you can get them customized with wording.
DH thinks the smaller 6 inch cake ($21+tax) is going to be too small (he wants leftovers!), but the 8 inch cake jumps to $32 for not much more cake. Not sure if I want to spend that kind of money just for some Mickey sprinkles, you know?
So that's option number 1.
Options 2 and 3 are both offsite options. DH suggested maybe just doing a cookie cake instead. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a Great American Cookie Co. nearby, which is my favorite place to get cookie cakes, but Publix does have one. We could make a run there to pick up the cake and get the food for dinner that night instead of having to get it at the beginning of the trip or have my parents travel with it. So the tomatoes & lettuce, etc. for the toppings would be super fresh too!
The cookie cake starts at about $10 according to their website, including having Happy Birthday Paxton written on it, so that's a cheaper option, and wouldn't be totally inconvenient to pick up. Publix is very close to the resort as we made a couple trips there last November.
Option number 3 is starting to look like the winner! We were talking about getting ice cream to go with the cake and how we will likely have a TON leftover. Not that it would be impossible for us to finish, but usually by the time we get home from the parks, I'm ready to shower & go to bed, not have another snack. So we kept searching until we came across...Cold Stone ice cream cakes!
Don't they look heavenly? Actually, all of them on their website look delicious, but we may go with a custom creation. You pick the size, flavor of cake, flavor of ice cream, up to 3 mix in items, a topping to have crumbled on the top and side crumbling. All of that for $30! Sounds like a better value than $32 for the Disney cake. And it will keep us from having to buy separate ice cream.
Yes, that's the Disney planning decision that I have been working on recently...a birthday cake for 4 months from now!
We're still not set and sure of which one we will do, but I think we will be happy with any of the choices since we will just be happy to celebrate Paxton's birthday in Disney World!
I have gotten just a little addicted to writing TRs since my first one! It it's touring with a toddler info you're looking for, DS has only been along for the ride for November 2011 and this most recent trip to DL!
