Tomorrow is Sweet P's birthday!!!!! Hip HIP HOORaaaayyYYY!!!! I can hardly wait!! Although I always wish I could afford to buy more stuff for the sweetest man on the Planet...I still feel like this birthday will be a very heartfelt and homemade celebration!! And here is the reason why....
Okay... I used a cake mix... but Rome wasn't built in a day people!!! HA HA!!! P decided that he would like a strawberry cake for his birthday and well... I may have gone overboard, just a bit ~
Here is just a bit of the strawberry cake mix on my mixing spoon... the question you are asking your self is... Did I lick it? OF course I did!!! What kind of baker do you think I am??? I must test it all.. he he!!
For quality, right??
Here it is in the NEW cake pans I purchased just for this GREAT cooking adventure!!! If you know me personally you know that I just don't bake, cook, or explore the kitchen that often... But today was actually FUN and I am so excited for P to see what I have made just for HIM!!
Okay, this is the 2nd layer, I forgot to take a picture after I gussied up the top... So here is what I did ~
First thing I did was put strawberry frosting on top, then I added strawberry preserves...
Then strawberries on top of that!!!!
Here it is at 3 layers!!! I know this is incredible!!! For me... THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!! LOL
The cake at 4 layers total!! So now it's just chillin in the freezer waiting for the final covering of icing!!! I know it looks a bit uneven, but like I said, "Rome wasn't built in a day"...
In the mean time here are some cool presents that I purchased for P... Lately we have both grown very tired of young Hollywood, so its back to classics!!! Here I have a classic film noir - Call Northside 777, and Sunset Boulevard, From Here to Eternity ( this one is a fav of us both), and I thought he might enjoy The Bridge On The River Kwai. I am still waiting for one more, keeping my fingers crossed that it comes by tomorrow!!
So earlier today I was slicing strawberries and I loved the inside of this strawberry with the little heart.... Future painting? I think so!!!!
And drummmmm rolllllllllllll pleaseeeee.... Here it is all covered up with butter cream frosting, yes out of a plastic container... but still delicious!!! Mmmmmmmmm.... AND Yes I again, licked my fingers, the spatula, and the knife too!!! HA ha ... I am really wondering why I don't bake more often... BUT Thank goodness I don't with all this licky goodness, I would be even BIGGER!!!! Yikes!! So maybe once a year won't hurt, too bad!!! Hummmmm....
I do know that is going to be ONE sweet cake, meaning rich, and we are going to need a Gallon of MILK to drink with it!!! LOL Opppssss.....
Here are P's final 2 gifts... Created with my own 2 hands, imagination, and happy thoughts about him, the whole time I was working on them!! It is a bit nerve racking making something like this for someone... How about they don't like it or get it???
This is a painting of P's mandolin. The very first time I saw it, with all of its curly ques and character, I knew I wanted to paint it!!! It took me forever!!! I would work on it be frustrated and then stop.. but finally I am happy with the finished painting! I hope P is too!!!!
A little close up view... Lots of color!! It makes music after all!!!
This painting I started just in case I wasn't able to finish the Mandolin... P is a man who loves his apples... So this is just a little ways of saying "P, you are the apple of my eye!!"
I had so much fun with this painting!!! I did a lot of it with my fingers! Finger painting can be very therapeutic!! It wasn't going to be a open apple... it just sorta happened that way!!!
Here is a little close up detail... FUN, huh??? Well I better get busy around here, the birthday boy is back later today and tomorrow we celebrate Sweet P!!!!! C U later... V !!
