The Cakes

We celebrated Missy M’s 11^th birthday last week…with cake number 1:

 

And cake number 2:

And at some point we’ll have a third cake when we have her school friends over for a party.

I’ll be officially caked out by then.

My mom is with us this summer and it's been great!  She made both cakes.  the first was a quick, recipe right out of her head kind of cake....and it was really good!

For me to replicate cake 1, I probably wouldn't go from scratch like she did.  I'm not that talented in the kitchen! Instead I'd...

• buy a pre made angle food cake
• rip it apart into tiny chunks
• slice up some strawberries
• mix it all together with some (pre made) vanilla pudding 
• Press it into a mold (in my case just a 13x9  glass Pyrex pan) and leave it overnight in the fridge
• The next day, flip it out of the mold onto a plate/cutting board/cake board and whip up some heavy whipping cream to frost
• Decorate with strawberries and refrigerate until party time.

Lucky for Missy M that I wasn't making it.

Cake 2 came from my McCall's cooking school binder of recipes...no longer published but if you can get your hands on one I strongly recommended  it! I've never has a recipe go wrong and everything I've ever made has turned out perfectly!

Now I've got to figure out the next cake and the details of her party...and if I figure it out soon I can get out of baking that cake too!