Category Archives: Birthday

Spring Birthday or Easter Cake Recipe

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Looking for unique ways to celebrate birthdays or holidays this season? Trying a new recipe with a fun, seasonal twist. For a recent family birthday I altered a Food Network cake recipe and it was a huge success!

If you want to try it out for an upcoming birthday or for Easter, here’s the recipe—be sure to stop by and let us know how it comes out or share pictures on our Facebook page.

Cake Ingredients:
5 eggs
1 cup canola oil
1 cup buttermilk
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
2 cups shredded coconut (I used unsweetened)
1 Tbsp. vanilla extract

Cake Instructions:
Blend all above ingredients together and beat with mixer.

*Bake in 3 9inch pans at 325 for 20-25minutes

Frosting Ingredients:
1 (8oz.) package cream cheese
1/4 cup butter (softened)
1/4 cup crushed pineapple (drained very well –I put it in a paper towel to wring out all the liquid)
1 Tbsp. vanilla
1 (16oz) package powdered sugar

Frosting Instructions:
Blend together and beat with mixer on high for 5 minutes

Topping: 
1 cup chopped walnuts (put in-between each layer as well as on top)

Decoration:
Jellybeans around the outside of the cake (or use your own creativity!)

*This cake needs to be refrigerated, but it tastes best if you take it out at least an hour before serving.

Showering Birthdays with Rainbows!

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Young kids go through all kinds of ages and stages—one year they may be interested in dinosaurs, cats or ponies and the next sports, princesses or ballerinas. This year, my daughter has been captivated by everything rainbow. From rainbow playdough, rainbow toys or even real rainbows in the sky, the bright, cheery colors just seem to draw her in. We have found it a charming fascination, so decided to incorporate rainbows as the theme for her family birthday this year. Enter, rainbow cupcakes!

We started by sitting down with our girls and following a simple yellow cupcake recipe together step-by-step. Our little one loved having the opportunity to “cook” with her big sister, and was given the provisions of bowls, spoons and flour (which made for a wonderful kitchen “snow fall” according to her big sister!)

Once the cupcakes were out of the oven and cooled, we mixed food coloring and frosting into 6 different cups –one for each color in the rainbow. My daughter used piping bags (when we ran out we simply used Ziplock baggies and cut the corner off, which seemed to work just as well) and spoons to spread her multi-colored frosting on her cupcakes—creating beautiful rainbow designs. And while she was at it, she also decorated herself as a bear. What are birthdays for if not for messy, tasty fun?!

 Amanda

Better Than a Greeting Card!!!

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Whether it’s a birthday, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, a pregnancy or any special occasion… What better way to deliver your message than on your little cutie?

My husband’s 40th birthday is tomorrow.  Since I knew he would be especially excited if our little man could wish him a happy birthday–I made him into a “card.”  I used fabric crayons to decorate his onesie.  You could use any child-safe fabric paint/markers, iron on letters or embroidery. I am excited to put him in his onesie under his pajamas tonight and when Daddy gets him up in the morning he will have a special birthday surprise.

Helpful Hints:

✴If you are doing a two-sided design, do one side and then iron it on (or follow the steps to make your designs permanent) before starting the second side.

✴Put the item of clothing over a book for a hard surface on which to work.

✴Wash the clothing item first to remove any chemicals and preshrink the fabric.

Sarah