cake decorating

My favorite birthday tradition was thumbing through a cake decorating book, picking an amazing design, and spending the afternoon with my dad preparing my birthday cake,

My younger brother has similarly fond memories of the tradition. He and his wife just welcomed their first child to the world, and I thought, "Why don't I find that book and give it to him, so that he had his children can make the same memories?" 

How hard can that be?

I gathered the description of my memories and my family's:
  • It was a book unless it was a pamphlet or leaflet
  • We found it at a thrift store unless we ordered it new
  • Either way it was late 90's or early 2000's
  • The cover was blue, unless the cover was ripped off and the first cake was blue
Understandably, this quickly became a difficult quest. We agreed on the following:
  • There was a sunflower, watermelon, and hamburger, all baked in a bowl
  • There was a castle, butterfly, snowman, bunny, star/chinese checkers game
  • There were birthday and holiday cakes, and also a serious section for nicely piped and decorated cakes (as opposed to children's designs)
I've asked Google, Reddit, Chat GPT, and Claude. I've spend hours pouring over cake decorating books and magazines and leaflets. How is it between two parents and four children, none of us remember a company, author, or cover of this book? I've purchased so many different books and none have been correct. With all these new designs, I will make a compilation of our favorite designs into our own DIY book. Which at this point, I think that's what we did the first time anyway. I'm not sure that book actually existed. 

The book/pamphlet/leaflet we had is none of the following:

                

The book/pamphlet/leaflet we had might be one of the following (I've ordered or researching more):

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