Posts Tagged: birthday cake

Mom’s 86th Birthday Celebration

My very spry and youthful mom turned 86 on Sunday, and here’s the cake I baked to celebrate.  It was made with four layers of Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge, and the filling was a combo of chocolate bavarian cream and buttercream (the Magnolia Bakery recipe).  You can check here for the particulars, as I […]

Chocolate Checkerboard Cake w Perfect Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

I do not own one of those fancy-pants checkerboard cake pans, but I wanted to bake one anyway.  My research revealed that it IS possible to do it, so I gave it my best try. It’s not terribly difficult, but it does require some fuss and lots of patience.  The idea is to bake three […]

Chocolate Birthday Cake

My dear friend, Holly, celebrated a milestone birthday this month and we surprised her with a small dinner party.  I baked her this cake and (if I must say so myself) it was really good!!  Really good. I’m not into the cakes-from-scratch thing.  Call me lazy or uninspired, but I enjoy baking and eating cakes […]

Pink Neapolitan Birthday Cake

Pink makes me happy….and that’s all I’ll say in defense of the color of this frosting.  (and maybe I’ll admit that I wasn’t paying close enough attention when I dipped the toothpick into the gel food color before I added it to the frosting.) Anyway…..it’s what’s INSIDE that makes this cake so very special.  Take […]

Carnation Celebration

Today is my birthday!  I celebrated with friends last week and ate a delicious homemade cake.  But today is my birthday….. and that cake is long gone….. so I had no other choice than to bake me a cake. Cake decorating was one of last year’s obsessions.  The community college was offering a course that […]