Pimp My Ride (Conor Turns 4 edition)

We are back from vacation in beautiful, sunny California (more posts on our trip and what we ate to follow…) But yesterday was Conor’s birthday (yeah!) and it has become a tradition of sorts for me to make him a custom birthday cake from scratch. I do this despite having absolutely no skills whatsoever at baking 3-dimensional cakes (or cakes in general). I plunge into this task each year because the boy likes trucks, likes cakes, and asks me to marry his two passions into one perfect expression of my love (no pressure, right?). Every year I think, “maybe I should just order a cake from the bakery like a normal person”, but I must be seeking some sort of humbling kitchen challenge because I keep on making them. Two years ago