Thursday, August 1, 2013

birthday week

Last week was a CRAZY week full of birthday celebrations. First we had Nikita's, with balloon animals, face painting, and sno-cones.
Yet somehow I only managed to get two decent pictures... SELFIE!

But, moving on:
That was followed by my sister Amie's and her friend Shelley's party.
Isn't Nikita beautiful?
They had the party at my aunt's house, which is a really lovely property. They have a garden and chickens and piggies and I grew up going to summer family parties there, so it is always nice to go back.

Leave it to me to ditch the socializing and go hang out with the farm animals.
 And my favorite part of the week was making these two lovely cakes:
Chocolate: Cake recipe adapted from the basic chocolate cake recipe here. (no andes mints, 4 eggs, and 1/2 of the boiling water)
Honestly, I used a different chocolate buttercream but didn't really care for it, so I would recommend the classic hershey's recipe found at the bottom of this page.
I put chocolate chips in the filling layer, and finished with a chocolate ganache on top!

Funfetti: THIS WAS SO GOOD.
And now we're moving on to my birthday on Tuesday! Yikes!

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