Dad-oo here!  I may have mentioned the now infamous (because I talk about it so much) Pancake Cake before to some of you.  This probably heightened the expectation that I provide documentation proving that such a treat exists.  Well it does and I made one for Eli as a reward for achieving 365 days of existence on the planet.  As you all know, cake is required to celebrate such an event and he wasn’t going to be able to have real cake for another couple of days at his party.  That would not stand!  Since I have absolutely no non pizza baking ability I had to create what in my line of employment (giant geek) is called a workable solution.  What better way to make an alternative to cake than to use something already labeled as cake?  And thus the Pancake Cake was born.  A much better name than Workable Solution Cake if you ask me.

I will take you through a pictorial creation process:

1. Eli frets.  What is a birthday boy to do without concentrated sugar to ingest?

   

2. The ingredients:  Allison created pancakes, Simply Fruit Jelly, Frosting, Sprinkles.  It’s like breakfast’s worst nightmare.  See the jelly is ALL fruit thus rendering the entire cake healthy.  Yes.

   

3. Trim the pancakes to allow for an easy frosting process.  Is that a green sphere with legs in the background?  Yes.
4. Apply jelly layer to cake and place pieces together.  This can be repeated until you have as tall a Pancake Cake as you wish.  Eli is only 1 so the size of the cake is directly proportional to how long we want to be chasing after a crazed toddler on a cake binge. Also, did Zorro carve his initials in my jelly?
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6. Frost cake.  
7. Deploy sprinkles and cut a slice of completed cake. 
8. Present the Pancake Cake to the birthday boy.
9. Om Nom Nom!

There it is.  Super easy cake for people who don’t actually want to bake a cake.  It’s pretty good too.  In fact, Eli’s face in the above picture says, “If you try to take my Pancake Cake, I will destroy you with my mind powers”.

Completely separate topic:  here is a conversation Eli and I had in the car today:

Eli: “Dad-oo.”

Dad-oo: “Eli”

Eli: “Dad-oo.”

Dad-oo: “Eli”

Eli: “Dad-oo!”

Dad-oo: “Eli!”

Eli:  “Daaaaaaaaaa-Dooooooo!”

Dad-oo:  “Eeeeeeellllllliiiiiiii!”

Eli:  “Ptttthhhhhhh!” (the sound for a raspberry)

Dad-oo:  “Ptttttthhhhhhh!”

Eli:  “Pttttthhhhhhh!”

Dad-oo:  “Pttth!  Ptttthhhh!”

Eli: [10 seconds of laughter]

And repeat about 5 times.

Best conversation I had all day.

Dad-oo out!