Cakes 2008

Rebekah had a casual hang out/get together for her birthday. We just made a cupcake tower and had a bunch of munchies. I never did get around to making her traditional, yummy Raspberry Chocolate Truffle Torte... Sorry! I owe you.

in March for Amanda's birthday we didn't do anything more than make a big pan of brownies for her 'cake' not up to our usual standards, but... it's really all she wanted.

In April, I was planning to make Liam a Train cake for his 2nd Birthday. As it turned out, I was at a birth, and dad bought a cake for him from the grocery store. He bought a Thomas The Train Engine cake, without me even telling him I'd wanted to do a train cake. I did make it home for dinner and birthday cake. In May Sariah turned 12. She had a sleepover but no theme, so we just did birthday presents.

In Sept. Marissa turned 8. She wanted a sleepover party cake. So that's what she got.

We had several friends with Birthdays a day apart, that all turned 8 yrs old this year. The one friend has a sister with the same birthday, and we had a little joint party. I made more birthday present cakes.
For Hannah's 10th birthday, she wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese. She also asked for their cake. (I tried to not take that personally). As it turned out, Bill ended up having surgery to remove his Kidney stone that day and I followed that up with a mom in labor... so we had a friend help us out and drive Bill to the Party and help supervise the Party. thank goodness for good freinds. Thanks, S! And also... it was a blessing that Hannah had a birthday somewhere we didnt' have to clean the house up for or make a cake for... Thank you Hannah!
I made less cakes for birthdays this year than I ever have before (at least for the past 8-10 years)!

Pumpkin Cake Roll

Pumpkin Cake Roll

3 eggs 2 tsp. cinnamon
1 Cup Sugar 1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
2/3 Cup Pumpkin ½ tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. lemon juice ½ tsp. salt
¾ Cup Flour 1 cup chopped nuts (pecans, walnuts)
1 tsp. baking powder

Beat on high speed for 5 minutes – the 3 eggs.
Gradually beat in sugar, stir in pumpkin & lemon juice.
Stir together, then fold in dry ingredients.
Spread in greased and floured 15x10x1” Jelly roll pan.
Top with chopped nuts.

Bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes.

Turn our on a dishtowel sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Starting at narrow end, roll towel and cake together. Cool. Unroll. Add Filling.

Filling:
Cream Cheese Frosting

1 Cup Powdered Sugar 1 8oz pkg. Cream cheese, softened
4 TBSP butter or marg, softened 1 tsp. vanilla
Combine and beat till smooth.
Spread cream cheese icing over cake roll. Roll back up without the towel.
Chill in the refrigerator until set.
Slice and serve.

Cakes... 2007

I was looking through pictures from the past year for another post, and decided I wanted to put pic's of cakes I've made all in one place... so here are the cakes from the past year. To start with in February: We had Rebekah who turned 16 and since she got her Drivers License that morning, I decided to do the Drivers License cake... It's not every day you can do that cake for someone... :-)

Next in March was Amanda's Birthday... we saw this yummy cake on the Take Home Chef t.v. show, and so I made that, it was Yummy! I think it had like a brownie bottom and white chocolate mouse type top with the Fresh strawberries. Then she just had this little cupcake tower for her birthday cake for her party, since she didn't really have a theme or anything.

On April 1st we had the Elders over for dinner. The kids wanted to do a big April Fools meal, so we looked on line and found some fun idea's and expanded on what we did a few years back to another set of missionaries. We told them since Liam's Birthday was in April we were celebrating it... We had Mini Hamburgers (nilla wafer buns covered with sesame seeds that stayed in place with a light spread of Apricot jelly. They were filled with peppermint pattie burgers, green coconut lettuce, and red and yellow icing for ketchup and mustard). The grilled cheese's were angle food slices grilled and orange icing/cheese. The little chicken pot pie's had vanilla pudding and dried apples for the chicken, and we made peas and carrots out of starburst candies. The nuggets, were actually banana's rolled in peanut butter then graham cracker crumbs. And for the cake... Meat Loaf iced with mashed potatoes and decorated with ketchup.

Then For Liam's actual birthday the end of April he got a cake with cars. He loved all the little cars that he got to keep off the top of it! Better than the actual cake!

Sariahs' birthday came next in May, and her favorite colors these days are yellow and purple so we did that, and then her cake for her birthday party was a sleepover cake for the occasion.

We have a break from birthdays over the summer and in Sept. Marissa wanted a make up/make over birthday party.

For Hannah's birthday in Dec

we went to this party place called Off the Walls.

Later in the month Sariah made me a yummy home made lemon cake with a lemon glaze. Liam got to it before we did so it's missing a piece. ;-) and then she made dad a cake for the big '40'.