Rainbow Cake!

This cake was the most time consuming and complicated cake that I have ever made! But then again, I don't have much experience baking or cooking. Like almost everything else on this blog, this was my first attempt at making this cake.

Here is where I got the decorating idea....

http://thegreatcakecompany.blogspot.com/2011/04/fat-tuesday-rainbow-layer-cake.html

My cake obviously didn't come out as nice looking, but here it is! I will post tips and ingredients under the pictures! :)

INGREDIENTS
3 boxes of WHITE cake mix
GEL food coloring
A LOT of sprinkles
*For the frosting I used a cream cheese buttercream recipe that I found online.  I believe I used powdered sugar, cream cheese, vanilla,  and butter


TIPS
*Be sure to cut all 6 layers of cake so that they are even! You can do this using a knife or the Wilton cake leveler.  This will keep the cake from collapsing like mine did! haha
* As you can see from my pictures, I put buttercream in between each layer and then stacked them on top of each other.  This was a big mistake because my layers were NOT even so some of the layers ended up cracking.  I had to throw out a couple cakes and start over.  The second time I frosted 2 cakes at a time, froze them for 2 hours, and then stacked them.  I still had trouble with making sure all the cakes were even.
* The last step was to stack all of the layers and place the sprinkles on.  Basically my kitchen looked like a rainbow explosion by the time I was done...
*The most important thing to do while making this cake is to make sure all of your layers are even!!


:)


It will probably take me a couple more attempts to get this cake to look nice

Stuffed Garlic Lemon Chicken

Here is where I got the recipe

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Garlic-Lemon-Double-Stuffed-Chicken/Detail.aspx

These are just some ingredients...I forgot the lemon and chicken haha.  The main attractions.

    The green beans are a bit over steamed!

Mother's Day Cupcakes

Mother's Day Cupcakes

Strawberries With Cream! Super Easy!

This is super easy to make and tastes really good! 
Ingredients
2 Cups of strawberries cut into small pieces
1 cup of sour cream
2 tablespoons of sugar
*You can change the amount of sugar that you would like to add.  

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First time making lasagna!

This turned out great! The only thing I would change would be to add less salt to the sauce.
Here is where I got the recipe from
http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/worlds-best-lasagna/Detail.aspx

Ready!

Easter Cupcakes

Lets start with the batter...

I am just getting started with making cupcakes so I am still using cake mix.  For these cupcakes I used a yellow cake mix and separated into 2 batches.  I then mixed one batch with 1/4 chocolate chips and 4 ounces of cream cheese.

While the cupcakes are cooling you can get all of your supplies ready.  As you can see, I used different type of easter candy, food coloring for frosting and coconut, and plain ol' store frosting.  Here are the cupcakes after they were decorated!

Finally they are packed up for delivery to my mom's house!