My son loves fire trucks so I gave him a fire truck birthday.
It started with a fire truck cake
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Featuring cookie wheels, roof lights, headlights, taillights, windows, ladder and hose.
The cake was a simple chocolate cake, nice and moist which I baked in a loaf pan and then trimmed for a more fire truck shape. I would have preferred it to be taller and a little shorter so next time I'm going to layer. Vanilla frosting dyed red.
Usually I would coordinate a birthday cake with cupcakes or another cake but he prefers cookies to any other baked good so I made a platter of complementary cookies.
Basic fire trucks, dalmations, axes, fire, wheels, and buckets of water.
All sugar cookies, my son's favorite.
These were my first foray into crafting cookie shapes with out a cookie cutter so they're a little interesting. The dog shapes and the plain fire trucks were both done with cookie cutters thought the dalmation's ears and spots were added.
In the end my son loves cookies way more than cake so he mostly ate those and I think I have maybe one cookie left now.
