Cake Designer Boy

Me: hey Donovan, want to make a cake for your dad’s birthday?

Him: yes!

Me: ok, his favorite cake is…

Him: we’ll make chocolate cake with vanilla icing, then chocolate chips on the icing and strawberries like a cap!

Me: …

Him: and cupcakes instead of cake. 

So that’s what we did. I measured, he poured and stirred. I mixed, he held his ears (electric hand mixer is noisy.) He put cupcake papers in the pan, I poured in the batter. I washed strawberries, he did all the decorating. 

And they were very delicious (and he was very pleased with himself). The end. 

There’s a lot of icing left, so tomorrow I’m going to try melting chocolate chips and combining them with the icing to make a sauce for angel food cake. Wish me luck!

Chocolate cupcake recipe: add a pinch, Best Chocolate Cupcake Recipe

Old-fashioned no-dairy (delicious!) vanilla icing: Food.com, Grammie Bea’s Special Vanilla Frosting 

Formal Night, Alaska

The ship’s internet flat refused to cooperate with blogging so I decided to give in and wait til we got home to post. Hoping to get the backlog posted this week. 

We had pictures taken on the first formal night. Turned out to be a good decision since Pop was sick on the last formal night and I’d have been very sad not to have these.