My mother celebrated her 80th birthday last Saturday. We had a family celebration at our house complete with a wonderful fruit flan that was a two-person effort between myself and my son's girlfriend Melissa. She is a professional baker so I was a bit worried that my task was to make the sponge cake! She made a wonderful pastry cream with real vanilla bean to fill the flan. I just had to slice the fruit and she decorated it beautifully!![](//2.bp.blogspot.com/_dra2H0dkAXY/Sp_WITUX_wI/AAAAAAAAA5w/6d5V_Es8QiE/s320/flan.jpg)
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Here's mom blowing out a few candles - no, we didn't try to get 80 candles into it! My son Scott is beside her.![](//1.bp.blogspot.com/_dra2H0dkAXY/Sp_WJQiCv9I/AAAAAAAAA6A/bd0wwCyq3jY/s320/dining-room.jpg)
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And here are the other 'grandchildren': my daughter Lindsay and her beau, Paul, and Melissa, the baker! I'm on the left, just taking the flan for slicing.
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