Looking through pictures last night, I realized that I hadn’t done a post on our birthday cake-baking tradition.  Things were a little different on the girls’ birthday week this year because of some scheduling conflicts, but we still kept the tradition of the cake bake.

For the past 2 years, on the girls’ actual birthdays, we have had the family over to eat.  Each girl gets to make her OWN cake for her own birthday–from start to finish.  (The first year we did this, it meant that there were a few egg shells in the cake!)  I was amazed this year at how good the cakes were! Not only did they taste great, they looked really good too!

Kyndall chose a rocking horse shape for her cake, which was yellow cake with cream cheese and chocolate icings and pink sprinkles on top.

Libby chose a teddy bear shape, with chocolate cake and icing, and pink sprinkles.  She did ask for a little help spreading the icing on, so I helped with that.  She did everything else all by her 4-year old self, though!

The girls LOVE this birthday tradition, and I can’t wait to see how their cakes turn out in the future!

**Disclaimer–I know Libby’s pictures are smaller sized than Kyndall’s.  I tried a hundred different ways to make Libby’s picture the standard format size, but they keep being smaller than Kyndall’s.  Oh the woes of technology!**