Happy First Birthday Liam

Well my baby turned ONE this past week and since he does not have a favorite anything (at the moment) I picked the theme.  I decided to go with Mickey Mouse.  I think my cake turned out pretty darn cute.  Between work and kids this cake was a two day process, but boy was it worth it.  I made the cakes (two small pans and one big pan) as well as the black icing on one day and made the peach and red icing and decorated the next day.  I thought I was going to have a hard time getting the black icing black and not purple.  However the trick of dying chocolate buttercream vs regular buttercream really did the trick.  I also made some cookies shaped as Mickey Mouse's pants as well.

I found this on the  Disney family site.  Super cute.  Just use your favorite sugar cookie recipe and some yogurt covered raisins and visit the site to get the template.  Make sure to use a lot of red food colour.  Mine were red when they went in the oven, but when they came out, the heat had turned them pink.  They still tasted and looked great, but would have been even better if they were red.

The little guy had a great time and I can't wait to make more cakes for him in the future.  My two year old has already informed me he wants a Toopy and Binoo cake.  I have two months to figure out what the heck I am going to do for that.

Cake time



One tired little boy

MSCC : Strawberry, I mean Raspberry Marble Cheesecake

This is my first recipe that I am baking with the Martha Stewart Cupcake Club.  My hubby bought me this book just a couple of months ago for Christmas and even though I am a little late joining this party, they still have plenty of recipes left to try.

This months selection was chosen by  Gem at Cupcake Crazy Gem.  I thought this was a great pick and I used this as my Valentine's day dessert.  I did make one modification, as you can see from my title.  My husband is not a raspberry fan, so I went and used strawberries instead. I found these to be very tasty and everyone went back for more.  I topped mine with some whip cream and sprinkles for the occasion.

I did have to eat these with a fork out of the wrapper.  Not because of the whip cream, but because I found them a bit tricky to get out of the wrapper.  Not sure if I was the only one that had this problem, or if this was how it was supposed to be.  I did cut this recipe in half so I may have not put in enough or to much of something.  However fork or no fork, this recipe was super tasty and I will be baking them again.   My boys were very happy with their Valentine treat.  You can find the recipe here and make sure to visit MSCC to see how the other bakers did.