Chocolate TIMES THREE!

The other Girl Scout moms and I split up the baking jobs for this year's Court of Awards Ceremony. I made the cake for the girls going into Cadettes. They requested chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, and chocolate chips! WOW! So, it's a devil's food cake, homemade chocolate buttercream frosting with Hershey milk chocolate chips generously sprinkled on top. I also put a small wooden bridge (Randy's idea) on the cake to signify the girls bridging from Junior Girl Scouts to Cadettes!

ALOHA!

The girls have so many of the same friends that they celebrated birthdays together this year and invited their Girl Scout friends over to our home for a luau!

Mom and I had fun with this cake! Our usual yummy buttercream frosting tinted blue for the water with some Goldfish crackers floating around and then crumbled graham crackers for the sand with some cute beach umbrellas!

The girls loved this party theme. They played the limbo outside, Mom made delicious fruit smoothies that they drank out of coconut cups and of course they had flowers in their hair and a lei around their neck :)

Mallory's other 10th Birthday cake

When we had family over for dinner and cake for Mallory's 10th birthday, she requested cake in the shape of her new age! One was white cake and the other was devil's food - both with blue tinted buttercream frosting - Mal's favorite color. The dots were made of marshmallow fondant which was very yummy! Normally fondant is just gross, but this recipe was wonderful and we'll be using it again!!

Mallory's 10th Birthday Cake

I haven't been on this blog in a while (oops!) - time to catch up... because we HAVE been baking! :)

For Mallory's 10th birthday, she requested white cake with homemade chocolate buttercream frosting - which is just as good as it sounds!!