Yummy, cake!

I haven't posted in a while, we've been super busy. After having our house for sale since December, we finally decided to put it up for rent too. We didn't have any showings until we listed it as a rental and we had 12 showings last week. So needless to say, I was quite busy picking up the house and evacuating.

Mia turned 1 on April 11th. We had her party April 9th. I decided I wanted to make her cake(s). Since we had around 60 people coming, this proved to be quite an endeavor. I chose to do box mixes for the cake since I needed so much cake and since my mom told me that whenever she made cake from scratch, it always turned out too heavy. So she came over on April 8th and we baked. And baked. And baked. And then decorated. We did make most of the frosting, using my grandmother's cooked frosting recipe. It was quite yummy. And although my cakes were more worthy of Cake Wrecks than Cake Boss, I was quite proud of them. I made a red velvet #1 cake, two smash cakes (one yellow cake for the party and one chocolate cake for her actual birthday), and a whole bunch of cupcakes (yellow and chocolate). The chocolate frosting on the yellow cupcakes was from a can.