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Perfectly Chocolate Cake

Perfectly Chocolate Cake

Normally when I’m making birthday cakes I use the boxed cake mixes but I love dense, rich, moist, cakes and this recipe from Allrecipes hit the spot! I’m guessing that to make a yellow cake you could just omit the cocoa powder, but I haven’t tried it so don’t quote me on that! I was perfectly pleased with how this cake turned out. And topped with Grandma Esther’s Chocolate Truffle Frosting, this cake turned out to be quite divine! Although, it is rich so remember to buy some vanilla ice cream or at least have a gallon of milk on hand! Continue reading

Chris’ birthday is tomorrow, where is my recipe?!!

I’m making Chris the chocolate cake with Grandma Esther’s famous truffle frosting for his birthday tomorrow but I’m realizing I can’t find the recipe! And all these years I’ve made him this cake and I have never posted the recipe to the frosting! Well, I guess I’m going to have to remedy that, soon! :)

Flower and Car Birthday Cupcakes

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This past March we had 4 birthdays to celebrate, three of our kids and one nephew, so we had one big birthday bash and I decided that cupcakes were in order! Continue reading

Pirate Ship Birthday Cake

Eamon's Pirate Ship Birthday cake-lots of fun and he loved it!

Just doing some catching up. As you can see, this is Eamon’s 2nd birthday cake and we are getting ready to celebrate his 4th birthday this year! Yikes! This was a really fun and easy cake to make. I thought I would share a little pictorial of how I made it.

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