Happy Birthday Justin!! We are so thankful that you are home so that we can celebrate this special day with you! The past year certainly has been full of adventures for you and we are certain that this year won't be quite as exciting...but we hope that we can still make many memories just being together!! So cheers and blessings to you! We love you.
O.k., now for the blog!! The Mulkey's have a long standing tradition (I'm really not sure how long), of having Checker board cakes for their birthdays. According to Justin, he and his brothers starting having these cakes "around Junior high or so...?"
I had never heard of one of these when I joined into the Mulkey family, but my sister-in-law Gennie bought me one of these special cake pan kits - enabling me to make these for Justin!
A lot of time, work and preparation goes into a cake coming out as perfect as it is in this picture; and since I had been under the weather for several days (fever, chills, probably the flu) Justin firmly believed that I would not be able to complete this task in time for tonight's big event. So...he called for reinforcements.
"Hey guys...the ingredients are 2 of those, 1 of those and 1 of those..." Seth is a serious worker in the kitchen and always wants to know what the ingredients are!
A little bit less egg yolk certainly won't hurt at all, right??
Once all the mixing is complete, the cake batter must VERY CAREFULLY be poured into separate divided areas!!
"Like this!!" Then just repeat that step times three cake pans!!
That's where mom gets involved...to ice the cake - Justin asked if I was going to let the boys help. "Are you kidding?" Well, looks like I could have used it...at least Zach would know how to spell "Birthday."
I was quite sure we would end up with more of a marble cake...
Not bad for a finished product!!
Happy Birthday Justin (and Trevor too if your reading this!!)
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6 comments:
oooohh that cake looks yummy! I wish we could have some too:) Emi will get to taste her first birthday cake this weekend, wish we could all celebrate birthday's together! Happy Birthday!!
what a cake that is. You totally get extra wifely points for going above and beyond and carrying on the tradition.
You're cracking me up with the misspelled birthday- I didn't even notice with that beautiful 'penmanship!'
Happy Birthay Justin!
1st- that looks yummy! 2nd-- kudos to you-- i don't think mine would turn out 1/2 that good ( except for the spelling!!) :) how are you doing out there?? have you found a good church yet?
Nice cake, I even made one for Trevor this year. Don't know when he last had one. I didn't have all that good help and it was still lots of work. Have no idea why I started making them but I think after I made one, everone wanted them for their birthdays and it ended up being a tradition. Sorry Gennie and Vonnie. Nice cake guys. NV Mom
They are so cute!!! And so manly about baking that cake... very logical and precise. I didn't notice the spelling either until you pointed it out. =^) How do you write that nicely on a CAKE?
I didn't notice the misspelling either until you mentioned it! What a fun cake!
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