Happy St. Patty's!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  The girls got this lovely set up for breakfast...I thought they turned out pretty darn cute.

The next masterpiece for the day was dessert for after corned beef and cabbage dinner tonight with family!  I love layered cakes...they are fun to make, and especially fun to cut into!  Green, in honor of the Irish. 

The cake itself was also in honor of this crazy lady, whose birthday was yesterday!  We sang and put candles on the cake for her to blow out.  This cake turned out to be pretty funny...I wanted to have six layers, so I used small 6" cake pans...not realizing they would make a TALL skinny cake.  It leaned rather alarmingly the whole evening.

But so fun to look at! 

But, as the leaning could have easily predicted, as we were sitting at the table after dinner and dessert chatting, the uncut portion of the cake toppled right over!  And then started to separate down the middle! 

It kept going, splitting in half.  We all kind of just watched in stunned but amused silence. 

It had a most undignified end...completely broken apart, and when the right half separated completely, it rolled a little, causing the top half to hang over the edge into my water cup.  My goodness.  We all burst out laughing...at least we had already eaten and I had already gotten pictures of it while it was still a whole masterpiece!

Happy Birthday, Mom, and Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Thanks for the laughs.