The Bakers with their baking attire and the apron pockets filled with measuring and mixing spoons. "Does anyone have the teaspoon?" I asked. Kiera reaches in her pocket, "yes, here it is mom." :)
Our recipe. We used a little less sugar, about 1/2 a cup of butter (actually a butter substitute because it was soft), 1/3 cup of buttermilk and only 1 cup of milk and a big chunk of zucchini peeled and finely grated (to add moisture for using less butter).
Mixing the dry ingredients
Creaming the sugar
After whipping the eggs in one at a time we added the buttermilk/milk and the dry ingredients rotating back and forth until we put all the ingredients and mixed until it looked smooth.
After the cake cooled, time to decorate!
For the frosting we used butter (less than 1/2 cup), 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 1/2 tsp vanilla, maybe 1/4 cup of milk (I didn't measure) and 2 Tablespoons cocoa powder. We actually melted everything together, mixed it well and poured it just on top of the cake. Then Kiera sprinkled sweetened coconut on top because Papa likes coconut. :)
The tell tale sign of a baker, the flour on the arm. haha
She put more than this on top.
After the cake was finished it went in the fridge, we ate dinner (made a big pot of beans today), then with the cake and vanilla ice cream stopped by Papa and Grandma's house for a surprise happy birthday. We did forget the candles but fortunately most people have at least one birthday candle in their cupboard.
2 thumbs up for this one. It was yummy!
How fun! And your children are absolutely adorable.
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