Chocoholic Anonymous

I mentioned in one of my TWD posts that I had made a special cake for “the Little Prince’s” first birthday celebration and promised pictures.  It is now a couple weeks after the fact, but I am very proud of my very first birthday cake effort so I still wanted to share.

I actually had some difficulty deciding what I wanted to do for his cake, it’s not like a one year old can tell you exactly what he wants his cake to look like.  After a fair amount of pondering I came up with a plan.  It’s possible that I may have gone a tad bit over board, I know he won’t remember his first birthday cake, but I wanted to do something special and I will always have the pictures to show him.

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It is Tuesday evening again and here I am at 9:00 PM  just beginning work on my post which means that, as usual, it will just barely squeak by the deadline.  I really did intend to get to this sooner; I had the best of intention but you know what they say about good intentions.  Why should this week be different than any other you might ask.  Well, this week’s recipe was selected by…me!  It is terribly rude for the hostess to be late, so I must beg your forgiveness…you do forgive me, don’t you?

Perhaps if I share some of my muffins with you….

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This week Sabrina of Superfluous chose Cranberry Upside-Downer on page 206 of Dorie’s book.  Now, I’m not entirely sure how this could have happened, but it seems that this may be my very first upside down cake.  At least I can’t recall having made any variety of upside down cake before.

I still have cookies and cake and ice cream left over from “the Little Prince’s” birthday party but cranberries, pecans and a lightly spiced cake sounded like a winner to me…

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This week Jasmine of Jasmine Cuisine selected Peanut Butter Crisscrosses on page 78 of Dorie’s book.  I thought these would make a nice extra treat for guests to munch on at “the Little Prince’s” first birthday party, so in the midst of making all the other food for the party not to mention the stress and excitement of making my very first children’s birthday cake (I will post pictures of that soon!) I managed to squeeze in this recipe as well.

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