Oh the spaghetti cake... it all started out as a joke.
Miles, loving his gf spaghetti at the age of 5, declared one night at dinner his LOVE for the saucy noodle goodness. I in return said, "how about a spaghetti cake?" YES, yes, a spaghetti cake, yup, it was set in his mind; a spaghetti cake was a fantastic way to ring in the age of 6!
I, in return thought, "what did i get myself into here??"
It took some quick thinking on my feet the day b4 the birthday as i set out to create a feast of confectionery noodles and sauce... i should have never underestimated the creativity that  was nurtured from the start of life its self! The cake, simple, a 9"x13" edges cornered off into the shape of a soft oval. The noodles? Just dirty iced the cake, then with a massive zip lock bag filled with "custom" colored noodle frosting (just a tinge of yellow) nipped the tip of the baggy, and went back and forth and  back and forth, and sideways, and back and forth, and back and forth and, you get the idea. Until, the entire cake was covered with the Italian craze, noodles. Then, onto the chunky red sauce. I knew i wanted it thick and chunky and deep red, just like real tomato sauce. But how? Ah, of course, an entire bottle of red food coloring, add a little complementary color, green, (just a drop!!) chopped up some Swedish fish gummies, and voila! Bon appetit!
How could spaghetti be topped with none other than meatballs? How about brownie balls? Before the cake was made, i whipped up a batch of, you guessed it, gluten free brownies, and just about a minuet after they cooled, rolled some up into meatball size and rolled them again, but this time into some cocoa powder. The coca  powder gave it that depth i was looking for and 3D color and shading. Next time you plow through some amazing meatballs, stop, look, feel and discover the complex nature of that meatball.... oh yeah, its that  depthy. (you know it must be deep, cuz i used the word "depthy....")
The fork and spoon,well, that was just showing off, ha ha... no really i was like "whoa,  watch this. BAM!"
I did have to have it "set" in the fridge so that the noodle didn't drop too far south, or, aka, melt out of its noodle form. All in all, it was SO much fun to make, andddd really easy.  Needles to say, he loved it.  It will forever be that, "Ah, the spaghetti cake... i remember that!!" and that was all that i was going for all along... and well, a good laugh of course!

The Beginning...

I had a problem. My 1st born was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac Disease about 2 months after he turned 3 yrs old, and only a week b4 his little brother had his 1st Birthday. So, what was i  to do with the big weight of "the cake." Cakes are such a big deal when it comes to birthdays. In my mind, i feel like its the eye of the storm, and all else  surrounds its presence. Ok, well, maybe its not that  intense, but it sure felt like it to me. Now, here i was, faced with a problem that no Betty Crocker was gonna fix. (at least not at that point; they didn't market a gluten free option in 2009) So I bought an "all natural" gluten free, egg free, soy free, dairy free, nut free, sugar free, taste free cake mix, and frosting that was  thick and slimy and awkward. It was all i knew to do. It was  disgusting, and gritty and made me thrilled that the next birthday in our family was months and months away! The thought of facing another gluten free cake made me cringe, and not to mention, the idea of doing anything "fancy" with a crumbly cake was out the door. I thought we would be stuck scooping out cake of a 9"x13" cake pan for the rest of our lives...... and to a creative person, this was, welll, not the picture i had in mind. I wanted to make fantastic cakes, and make a birthday worth remembering, and to me, the cake was the center picture of the day. It was the mental pin that you could always go back in time and say "AH, YES, my  4th birthday, the volcano cake! I remember that!!"
SO, i did it. I took a chance. On our oldest sons 4th birthday, I made a GOOD home made, gluten free volcano cake, and for our 2yr old  at the time, made a snow man cake, then next came a treasure chest, and a dump truck, soon followed by the "famous" Spaghetti cake..... I did it. I crossed that hurdle that  said: "its too hard, just give up" and went full force into making a challenge every time a cake appeared.

It may be just cake to you, but to me, its a memory in the baking making, and i am ready to bake it  up! 

   ^not the best, but one of the firsts!

^favorite cake to date!