Every bite of food should be a sweet bite
Yes, the posting this past week has been light.
But, I have not been lazy with creating things in my kitchen.
Specifically things like those cute cakes you see above. I have wanted an excuse to create these adorable cupcakes for ages.
I really don’t know if this will count towards my Heavenly Cake bake-a-long. Mainly because I adapted so much of this recipe at the end, I feel like I actually ended up doing something totally different than the original.
Talk about inspiration.
The background of this cake is simple. One of my best friends birthday was coming up. Her boyfriend, who is an avid cook like me, sent me an email and asked me if I be willing to bake her the birthday cake. At the same time this was happening I was already thinking of offering my baking services to the cause. I love when the universe works all of these tweaks and everyone ends up getting what they what.
After a bit of investigating efforts of the boyfriend, we narrow it down to her favorite cake being carrot cake.
Which was perfect for me, since I had not baked the carrot cake when it was in rotation, so again win-win.
Wondering what that picture is above right?
It’s cake, so let’s get that OUT OF THE WAY.
It’s also a very special cake.
Let’s just call it a “preview” for the “final” reveal at the end of the post.
A background story first…
Tomorrow’s is the little man (not anymore) birthday, which meant that our house became birthday party central over the weekend. Mr. D (what we call him) decided he was old enough to have a grown up birthday, which involved four friends, lots of food, video games, movies, a bunch of sleeping bags and a full camp out in our living room and cake.
Take it from a ten year old again to know the simple things in life.