L.O.V.E.

Another Valentine's Day has come and gone. It is one of my favorite holidays. Mostly because of all of the oh so cute crafts and sweets you can make, especially with kids. Anything with pink, red or hearts and I'm sold. Teagie, my 16 month old son, helped me with frosting sugar cookies. He had such a great time eating and making a disaster out of the kitchen. Gosh, I love him so much!!! How could you not with a face like that?? ;)

This time I tried tackling mini cakes. A little bit of a challenge just because of the size but not as time consuming. I made chocolate and vanilla swirl cake by pouring a layer of the chocolate batter and then a layer of vanilla on top. Then I used a spoon to bring the chocolate batter to the top in select areas and then swirled the spoon around to get the look. Easy breezy. Once the cake was cool I cut out circle and square shaped pieces for each two tiered mini cake. Biscuit cutters and cookie cutters work well. Then just crumb coating and decorating like any other cake. Teagie helped make the cake pops which were made using the leftover cake and frosting. He again had so much fun. I can't keep him out of the kitchen which is actually a blessing for me considering how much time I like to spend baking and cooking. He did get mad at me though when I wouldn't let him chuck the cake pops across the room. Maybe next time.....

Isn't the red one just adorable? I wish it would have been my wedding cake!