Blogs Posts on "Birthday Cakes"

A New Week, A New Challenge by Jenyfer Matthews on Oct 19, 2009Even though I let myself off the hook by not hosting a big “friend” party for my son’s 7th birthday, I still spent a lot of time running around on Saturday and Sunday preparing for his big day. As a compromise for not having a party...

Percy Train Birthday Cake by Andrea's Recipes on Oct 10, 2009My husband Michael, the engineer (aerospace, not trains), is the designer for all our sons’ birthday cakes. He’s a big fan of Duff Goldman and watches Ace of Cakes often trying to pick up any tips he can. We only tackle cakes like this three time...

Way Back When-esday: Tears of a Clown by Twinfatuation on Aug 11, 2009Dateline: August 2006Twins' age: Nearly 5The ultimate handler of Happy Meals was quite the attraction at our local Watermelon Festival three years ago. Despite her body language, behold the requested featuree on Sarah's birthday cake a mere few weeks...

Volcano Birthday Cake by Andrea's Recipes on Jun 17, 2009For Top Gun’s fifth birthday, he requested a volcano birthday cake with dinosaurs. For some reason, he associates volcanoes with dinosaurs, so we obliged and made a chocolate volcano birthday cake with chocolate frosting and colored vanilla frostin...

Cake Slice Bakers: Triple Lemon Chiffon Cake by Cafe Johnsonia on Mar 20, 2009This month for Cake Slice Bakers, we chose to make the Triple Lemon Chiffon Cake from Sky High: Irresistible Triple-Layer Cakes by Alisa Huntsman.Because I have a very good reason, I deviated slightly from the recipe and added strawberries.The insid...

Coconut Rum Cake by Cafe Johnsonia on Mar 10, 2009I love coconut cake. It's probably my very favorite. I usually only make it once a year for Easter. I made an exception this year. (I'm still making one for Easter.)I made this for our Brazilian crowd for my MIL's birthday. (This is the last pos...

Brown Sugar Cupcakes by Cafe Johnsonia on Feb 16, 2009A few years ago, I was getting ready to make cupcakes for my son's first birthday, when I realized I was out of white sugar. (This rarely happens.) It was either use Splenda or brown sugar. I opted for brown sugar.The result was marvelous. Since...

Christmastime by I Love Sterndal on Nov 21, 2008Whoever said that ‘Christmas is just for lil’ kids’ got it all wrong. I’m all grown up and Christmas never lost its magic for me. I still get giddy everytime I hear carols and I still find myself fawning over the s