Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts

Friday, June 10, 2011

The Beginners Rainbow Cake

My niece recently had a birthday.  We were blessed to be able to spend most of the weekend with her.  She even spent the night with us for my 3 year olds first real sleepover (more on that later).  Just before her birthday I had seen a really neat cake that I wanted to try making so I asked my niece and her mom if they minded if I made her birthday cake this year.  We don't try not to have cake in the house so I was glad for the opportunity to try this fun cake and share it so it didn't stay around our house!!!  I hate we didn't get any pictures of the process of making the cake (it's soooo easy) but here are some pictures of the finished product.
Birthday girl holding the cake.
Cutting the first piece.  She was very surprised at what the inside looked like!!
 The Rainbow Cake!!!
And one more.  I wasn't too happy with the "purple" color.  It turned out more brown as you can see.  I'll have to work on that.  Here's a link to a good tutorial for this cake.  If I can do it so can you.  Have fun!!!
Edited:  My husband helped me make this cake while the girls were napping.  I guess I can't take full credit for how it turned out!

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Daddy can add COLOR , too!!!

Lately our oldest daughter is really hating to have to say goodbye to Daddy on mornings he has to go to work. I think Daddy equally hates AND loves to hear her say, "Daddy, don't go. Please stay with us!!" He hates she's so upset but loves that she misses him so much. I can't say I blame him...sometimes I feel she only gets tired of me and never misses me :-P
During dinner we've started casually counting down the days until Daddy gets to stay home with us for TWO WHOLE DAYS!!! on the weekends. It's fun and I feel like we're teaching her some mathematics in the process. I love to see her giant smile when she knows the weekend is getting close.
Here are a few pictures from how Daddy added a little color to a normal Saturday morning...
"Mommy, look at me!!"
Adding some FLAVOR.
They were delicious!!