We both had a fabulous and busy weekend. This past Saturday, we celebrated Holly's Birthday. I decided to make her a yellow butter cake. I'm still experimenting with from scratch cake recipes. This one was from Cook's Illustrated. It tasted good, but was a tad dry. Next time I'll probably add sour cream to the batter before I bake it. Also, this chocolate fudge frosting is a great recipe.
I decided I wanted to make a chocolate cookie monster cake topper. So I got out my food dies, white chocolate, milk chocolate and made a 5" cookie monster face, to go on the 6" cake. I thought it turned out super cute! We had fun munching on it yesterday as we decided to do Birthday festivities over two days.
We had a lovely dinner at Saltoro. We both LOVE that restaurant up on 143rd and Greenwood Avenue. We had amazing risotto cheese balls with tomato jam for an appetizer. We both followed that with salads. Holly had a caesar with house caesar dressing. I had the Saltoro salad with blue cheese, dates, candied walnuts and sun dried tomatoes with orange vinaigrette. We both rounded out our meals with pasta dishes. Holly had some spicy chicken sausages in a fettuccine cream with spinach pasta. I had smoked salmon in white wine cream sauce with capers, tomatoes and roasted veggies. It was a perfect meal.
Happy Birthday to the cutest girl in the world!
1 comment:
Thanks for making it a great day! This was nice practice for making a cake for our child someday!
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