After 7 years, it finally happened! The triplets wanted different kinds of birthday cake.
As I’ve mentioned before, we all choose what we want for our birthday cakes in our family. Up until this year, we’ve really lucked out in that, {J, O & S} have always just agreed on the same kind of cake. So this year was a ‘first’. They had all spent their own bouts of time flipping through their big sister’s cook books, and it seems 2 of them had seen something they wanted, and they knew exactly on which page, in which book, it was.
So this post isn’t directional recipes, per say, but a few cute ideas you may like to use for your kids, or yourself, sometime! Good news: Birthdays are not a requirement! An ordinary Sunday, the kickoff of a school vacation, or house cleaning being all done, are all good enough reasons for a treat! Feel free to come up with your own reasons. It’s really not hard to do when you’re in the mood for a treat!
Look how happy they are! This makes the extra hours in the kitchen, worth it.
{J} chose to have a ‘Mice Cream’.
In a graham cracker mini-pie crust, add a big scoop of your favorite ice cream. (In other words, choose your mouse color. : )
Eyes & Nose = Chocolate Chips
Whiskers = Large sprinkles
Ears = Keebler Grasshopper Cookies
Tail = We wanted red licorice string rope. But we could not find any. So, we picked up some of this Extreme Sweetly-Sour Belts, that we cut for a thin tail. It was wicked gross, and we threw it out as soon as the tail served it’s purpose. : )
Cute, huh?
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{O} chose a Cupcake Cone
With some yellow cake batter from {S}’s, we filled the cone up more than 2/3 full, and baked in 350 degree oven for 25-28 minutes. Cool, frost, sprinkle, eat. : ) We made 7.
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{S} wanted a 7 Cake!
Oh yeah, he’s sharin’!
We just baked an ordinary marble cake in a square cake pan, and cool. Remove from the pan, cut into a 7, frost and sprinkle.
We used to rarely have sweets around here. But since {A} loves baking so much, and with so many birthdays, holidays and blessings, we’re finding more reasons to celebrate with a treat than we used to! Thankfully, they are generously spaced with many healthy balanced diet meals around the table together.