Our Family Recipes

Growing up meal time was a "fend for yourself" time. Generally. We did have meals together. Sometimes. As a general rule if you were hungry, you found something to eat or went hungry. After getting were married, I remember my husband asking me what we were going to have for dinner. To me it seemed a funny question. I told him I was going to have cereal and asked him what he was planning to eat. It seemed a perfectly logical to me. (I should say here that my husband was one of six children and they ate nightly meals together). He asked in his very sweet way, “Don’t you think we should make something and eat together?” I was baffled. After all, it wasn’t a birthday, Christmas, Easter or Thanksgiving. It was a regular
day. It wasn’t even Sunday. “Seriously?” was my response. Probably not what the poor guy wanted to hear. The next night we had meatloaf. I was very proud of myself. It was a regular day, and I had cooked dinner. Again my sweet husband asked (so kindly as to not offend), “Do you think we should have
something with the meatloaf…like potatoes, rice or corn?” “SERIOUSLY???” I had just cooked a main course, which to me was a big deal. The idea that he thought there should perhaps be more on the table was totally foreign. We’ve come along way since then. I now usually cook a nightly meal, not to mention making breakfast & lunches. Cooking has become something I usually enjoy. We are busy with 3 children so meals have to either be very simple and fast, or planned ahead of time. And yes, we do still have cereal for dinner every now and again.

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Helicopter Cake

Neal's Cake

Yumm...

Pokemon Cake

The two character's were done as a buttercream transfer (my favorite way to do a cake when you are pinched for time!).

Tinkerbell Cake!

Favorite Things

This cake was made for a 40th birthday and show's his favorite things. It was a Chocolate Ganache cake with popcorn cupcakes and sushi cupcakes and chicken drumsticks made out of rice crispy treats and covered in corn flakes.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Race Car Cake

Race car cake made for a friend's son's birthday!

Flower Garden Bug Cake

Emmy's 7th birthday cake was a flower garden bug cake. It was a lot of fun to make and turned out really well. The flowers were made a day ahead of time and left to harden, which made the cake assembly a lot easier!

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Train Cake

This train cake was for our youngest daughter's 2nd birthday. It was a lot of work, but turned out really nice!

Unicorn Cake

This was a Unicorn Cake for our Middle daughter's 5th Birthday. The Unicorn was done by Buttercream Transfer, which makes the whole cake decorating experience really easy because a lot of the work is done ahead of time! Our Elle loved this cake.

Puppy Cake

This was suppose to be a puppy dog cake for our oldest's 6th birthday party. The "Puppy" ended up looking a bit more like a bear in my opinion, but still cute!

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