My son is going to be 18months old! For his first birthday, we had decided for a simple brunch with immediate family. Since I grew up not having birthday party, I have to admit that I was very intimidated with the idea of throwing a huge party. I just didnt know where to begin.
This year, I've chosen to throw a little party. We live quite far from civilization, so I figured it would be a nice occasion to see all the people that we love but that find our home rather far for simple afternoon tea.
I figured that 6 months of prep time would give me time to figure it out. O made the invites with his programmer skills! They are lovely, all we need is to print them out and figure out who to invite (rather important, eh!). So now, I am focusing on making a cake. Preferably i'd like to make a thomas and friends cake. Now, I cant have a pretty cake that tastes like crap so its off to the ovens.
Tonight, im trying Devils food cake from the Good Home Cookbook as well as their buttercream recipe. I figured I'd start basic and work it up. The cake has finished baking, the time inicated in the book was way off, 40 minutes would have burnt my cake. 25-30 are plenty enough. They look nice, but they are rather flat. Im not sure wether or not this is normal....ive never seen devils food cake (shocking, i know). I guess i'll just have to make and eat more chocolate cakes to find out ;) Im so disappointed lol
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