Thursday, January 22, 2009

Knee deep in birthday week

Birthday week continues, with G taking a birthday treat (Super Bars with no nuts) to his preschool "Mom's Morning Out" friends yesterday, and R taking a treat to his classroom this morning (Slacker Chocolate Chip cookies, made into bar cookies and cut into the shape of race cars). If I don't bake again after this weekend for a long, long time, I will be a happy camper.

I still have the grand finale of birthday week baking for their party Saturday. I am making two homemade cakes in the shape of a race car. I was excited to find this recipe for homemade cake mix. In classic Sweet Pea style, I will be tweaking the recipe a bit to see what works best and to make it all natural, so I'll be sure to report back on that end.

I also found natural food coloring:

I've never used natural food dyes, but I am going to give them a whirl...we'll see! Has anyone out there ventured into natural food coloring?

Baking up a storm,
SPC

7 comments:

Deep in the Heart said...

Up early were we? I'm with you. I surely commiserate with you, but am glad you get to make your own treats. I've never been able to bring home made goodies to class so "all natural" just need not apply. Let me know how the food coloring goes. Rachel came home with a journal page describing her flower birthday cake ("My next birthdy cake will be kelfrl. And it will be a flar birthdy cake. It is a choklit cake.") so looks like I could use some help.

emstitt said...

I feel very lucky to have a school that "discourages" treats for a bday, so I am one of the lucky few that need not worry about classroom treats!! You are so creative with cutting the cookies into special shapes. Please don't tell Julia that is ever a possibility... ;)

Sweet Pea Chef said...

Jenn, I give up...what is "kelfrl?" I got the rest of it...

:)

Erin, the secret is safe with me!

PaigeM said...

You really deserve the Mom of the year reward...homemade cakes and in the shape of racecars. Wow. I'm looking forward to seeing pics of the cake.

Slacker Mama said...

We didnt' make the Slacker Chocolate chip cookes this weekend...darn. Now I'm craving then.

I'm absolutely no help on the natural food coloring. Or baking for that matter.

Deep in the Heart said...

kelfrl = colorful, of course. So I'll definitely need some help with coloring the icing.

Sweet Pea Chef said...

Paige--I don't know if I get mom of the year, or "out of her mind" award.