I'm really lucky when it comes to holiday baking. My husbands co-worker (who also loves to cook) invites us over every holiday. It really gets me off the hook for cooking, especially during holiday busy time.I did, however, want to practice my newly learned cake decorating skills. I wanted to practice the basket weave again. This time I did it in chocolate. It turned out great, and went even faster this time. I thought that the frosting was good, but next time I will probably try using melted chocolate instead of the cocoa powder.
As we were heading out the door, I wanted to take a picture of it. But then I noticed my husbands shoes were in the picture.
So I took another one:
This time I caught my daughter's shoe in it.
I guess with so many feet running through this house, it's bound to happen.
Here's a picture of that cute little 2 year old with her Easter Dress on (the sun hat was her own idea. Little girls are so fun!)
Forgot to mention that I doctored this cake up:
ReplyDeleteI used a chocolate cake mix and added the zest of a lime, lemon, and orange. I had done this before with a white cake and wanted to try it on a chocolate one!
Then I took juice from each of those citrus fruits and mixed it in the buttercream frosting.
I prefer it with the white cake, but it was still so good!