Today I am 61 ½ years old. I love my birthday and cake so much that I have celebrated my half birthday for as long as I can remember. 😁
Today, I have half of a mocha layer cake with mocha buttercream. Frosting isn’t something I do very well at all so I’m pleased at the way this one looks. 🍰
Birthdays represent joy, cake, happiness, fun, balloons, cake, friends, laughing, and cake. I just love mine. 🎈
Do you celebrate your half birthday?
A couple of years ago, I pinned a cake to my Easter board at Pinterest:
Look at the comment. 🙂 So I decided this was going to be that day and gathered what I needed. It was really easy.
I made the chocolate layer cake in 6 inch pans because we really didn’t need that much cake and it makes it just her size. Then I made buttercream frosting and tinted it purple. Put that together, attached the Peeps all around, sprinkled Easter M&Ms on top and Voila! My cake:
I was really happy with the way it turned out and hoped the glambaby would love it, too.
We had it for brunch today and she loved it!
She wanted the Peeps off of it. She decided earlier that she likes Peeps since they are marshmallows which she loves. She then proceeded to eat the ears off of every bunny Peep she got a hold of. She liked the M&Ms that were on top of it, too. Honestly, I’m not sure if she even ate the cake part of it but I knew the way it looked made her happy and that was enough for me. 🙂
Success!
Yesterday was the Glambaby’s birthday and today is Boo Boo the Wonderdog’s birthday. I decided I was going to try my hand at rolled fondant frosting. It’s #60 on my goals list and I’ve always wanted to try it.
I’m left handed and it’s really hard for me to decorate with buttercream because all of the tools, tips, etc. are made for right handed people and it just doesn’t work. But fondant always seemed like roll and place and I figured it would be easier to do.
I used the Marshmallow Fondant recipe at All Recipes to make my own fondant. I don’t konw what your fondant eating experience has been but mine has been Blech! Nasty. The reviews for this recipe were good for taste and ease. They were also very enlightening. I read through them all so I would have the best chance of success. There’s also a video to watch to gain more courage.
I knew I could do it, I was ready!
I chose this cake for inspiration.
I made two layers of brownie in five inch pans so it’s a pretty tiny cake but it’s all we need. I put peanut butter cups into the brownie before I baked it. For filling, I melted chocolate chips.
Then I rolled out the fondant. It was easy! I used cornstarch to keep it from sticking.
I then place it over the cake.
I took a small amount of the fondant and worked some red food color paste into it. The palms of my hands are still red. 🙂
I then cut out the little hearts, painted their backs with water and stuck them to the cake.
I know there are fondant cake making secrets I must still learn. How to keep my hands from being dyed when coloring the fondant, how to make it smooth.
But for the most part, I’m pretty darned excited with my first effort at rolled fondant. Doing what I did seemed pretty easy and I would definitely try it again. 🙂
In two weeks it will be my birthday. This is a big birthday. A milestone birthday. An “0” birthday. Yep, it’s a big one and I need to make a big cake.
My problem is this: I am a Libra.
Right. That’s me. Born under the sign of the scales and I can’t make a decision.
Here’s where I need your help. I love to bake and I want to have a fantabulous birthday cake for my Big “0” birthday but I can’t decide. I’ve narrowed it down to four choices. Please vote and which ever cake receives the most votes I will make myself for my birthday.
BONUS: If you live close to me, you might have to help me eat this cake as it’s possible that David will be out of the country for my birthday. (Yes, again. This will be the 5th year.)
Okay, here we go.
 Cake #1 – Irish Cream Cake
This is a yellow cake with butterscotch frosting. The cake itself is flavored with Irish Cream. I adore pecans, which you can see adorn the outside of the finished cake. |
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 Cake #2 – Turtle Cake
Om nom nom. This cake probably really needs no description. Look at the caramel dripping down the top. I love Turtles – The Candy and a cakelike version of it has got to be good. |
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 Cake #3 – Delta Mocha Chiffon Cake
Chocolate and coffee. Coffee and chocolate. Yum! What a terrific combination and I love them both with all of my heart. |
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 Cake #4 – Nanny’s Famous Coconut Pineapple Cake
Pineapple and coconut tropical creamy goodness. On the upside for those who live close to me, David detests both coconut and pineapple so there would be more of this cake to share. I rarely get to eat coconut but it is MY birthday after all. 🙂 |
So there you have it. Please help me decide by voting below. I will so appreciate not having to eat four cakes for my birthday!
I do love cake. It all started when I was in first grade at Highland Elementary School. There was a cake walk at the school carnival. I had no idea what a cake walk was but I love games so I got into the circle and began to play along.
As I remember, it was actually kind of like musical chairs except there was a chair for everyone. So around we walked. Then the music stopped and I sat in the chair closest to me. Magically (to my seven year old way of thinking) I won a cake! A whole cake. A big cake. A cake of my choosing from a whole table full of big, beautiful cakes.
I remember my utter disbelief at my good fortune. I couldn’t believe my parents were going to let me take a whole cake of my own home with me but they did. I chose a peppermint cake. It was pink and I had never had anything like it. Chocolate ruled in our house. It was in a 9 x 13 pan, too, which I had also never seen before and it seemed HUGE!
I believe that this one exciting moment in time is what caused my love for cake. I’m sure it was also instrumental in sparking my competitive streak. I learned just how sweet it can be to win!
My tombstone will probably read:
Here lies Lauri. She liked cake and she liked to win.
🙂