My first basket weave cake

I had tons of problems with this cake. I could not level it to save my life and when I added the filling, I added to much and the top layer kept sliding off, It was a yellow cake filled with pistachio pudding, the pudding kept seeping out onto the white buttercream icing. I was more than happy to cover it up with a basket weave technique.

see, its not so bad now.







It had like a 2 inch layer of icing! The sucker was heavy.

Guess Who's Birthday It is today?

Our Beautiful Beagle Buffy (say that 10x fast) turned 8 today. Happy Birthday!!!. Look at her, She's all smiles.

 We took her out for a nice walk at the park, she enjoyed barking at the ducks and sniffing every tree.



We then went to the pet store and bought her some treats.

You guessed it, she got a pink cupcake squeeze toy and other goodies






Happy 8th Birthday Buffy, we love you

And some Bonus pics of the girlies, Nick had school today.


Notice the Oregon Duck's stadium on the background

Tina Cocolina

Adorable book.



I love the illustrations,they are very colorful and Tina is as cute as can be. I have been thinking of making Sophie and Evie a Tina costume for Halloween, yeah I know, its still early in the year but I have always been a planner.  I love that the book has cupcake and frosting recipes at the end, the story itself is kind of awkward. Its about a girl trying to find her cupcake topping in order to enter The Cream of the Top Cupcake contest.

Anyway, since the kids and I were stuck at home we read the book and tried the "Tina Cocolina A Sweet Plain Vanilla Cupcake" recipe. The kids kept putting them on their head just like the characters in the book.

Here they are looking for "their topping" just like Tina.

Yup, Even used Honey Nut Cheerios.




and the creations




A little heavy on the sprinkles there.

Pink Pixie Cakes

Made the kids a fun lunch today. Strawberry pink cupcakes topped with pixies (pink pixie cakes :) )

I made the picks myself. Found the cute pixies at the dollar store (dollar tree) in the scrapbooking section and since the backs were already sticky all I needed was toothpicks.





You can buy two sheets and sandwhich the toothpick inbetween two stickers so you don't have a blank back.









The kiddie table. This is where the girls usually take their lunch. found the cute tablecloth at the thrift store for $1.99. I'm thinking of dying it either pink or dark green.


mac & cheese, cupcake and a tuna sandwhich shaped like a butterfly.



The kids thought it was neat, Its so much fun to make lunch special sometimes

Happy st. Patrick's Day

We had a wonderful Irish feast today. My Mother in Law Edie was over and she always helps with the meal. She makes the best blarney stone cookies ever!

Found some info on our family last name:

The surname Flynn/Flinn comes from the Irish clann name O'Flynn who in ancient times were chiefs in the area known as Munster.


Pretty cool huh? :)

We had the traditional Irish meal of corned beef and cabbage. My kids LOVE cabbage. That's mostly what they ate today.

I tried to ice a shamrock cake but it kept looking like a round cake. I finally gave up and used my fondant. Yayyy for fondant, It was a white cake filled with pistachio pudding. very tasty if I do say so myself.



I decorated it with skittles, taste the rainbow!






Best cookies ever! I swear these things are addicting. I'll have to post the recipe


I also made lemon cupcakes, I got this tea cup and saucer at a garage sale long time ago when we were living on the border of KY and TN. Gosh I miss the south.



Green mashed potatoes




corned beef.


Home made rolls.


cabbage


and my kryptonite, watercrest salad.


















And the family


Bonus pic of me that the hubby took.