In honor of the upcoming beautiful and poignant holiday, we're re-using this fun post from four years ago.... and Lacey Blodgett's amazing patriotic cake! Here you go!
I knew it!
I knew I would think today is Tuesday and of course it is not Tuesday.
It is Wednesday, and I need to have some Yankee Belle Fun here for Thursday!!!!
EEEEEK!
But, wait.... we had a Memorial Day weekend, so there is fun to be had! We were farming and planting and watching all kinds of little kids and sweet babies and we had a wonderful time going to the annual Hilton Memorial Day parade and paying our respects to veterans... and our flag. And our high school marching band, and our first responders....
It was a lovely parade, and then some quiet time at the cemetery, planting flowers in the Blodgett garden.
We embraced service, life and loss, and it was all good!
Lacey made the creation of the day.... Patriotic cake!
Now, that's an eclectic picture, you're saying.... Why are the cakes on Barilla Fettucine boxes? Is this a new thing?
Well, this is what happens when you need to reassemble your 140 year old oak table and haven't done it yet.... and there was no place to set the cakes to cool where little kids couldn't/wouldn't get them!
These are 6" cakes, white cake dyed to the appropriate colors....
Top shot! Lacey frosted the cake, then decorated the top with strawberries and blueberries...
Isn't that perfect?????
PHOTOBOMBED BY JON!!!!!!
And this is triple berry sauce on French vanilla pound cake from Sam's Club... I made the berry topping by thawing triple blend berries and slicing two pounds of fresh strawberries into the berry mix, and adding about 1/2 cup sugar and letting it sit for about 20 minutes....
So we had red/white/blue desserts covered!
Happy Baby Alert!!!!
Morgan! She's getting so big, she's 18 months old now, and her dark
straight hair has turned to blonde curls! How funny!!!!! She looks like
her mama but she got my square (read: big) head!!!! She's adorable!
Happy Baby Alert #2!!!!!
Lena!!! Big brother Finn is running around her exer-saucer, and she thinks he's soooo funny!
And then here....
I knew I would think today is Tuesday and of course it is not Tuesday.
It is Wednesday, and I need to have some Yankee Belle Fun here for Thursday!!!!
EEEEEK!
But, wait.... we had a Memorial Day weekend, so there is fun to be had! We were farming and planting and watching all kinds of little kids and sweet babies and we had a wonderful time going to the annual Hilton Memorial Day parade and paying our respects to veterans... and our flag. And our high school marching band, and our first responders....
It was a lovely parade, and then some quiet time at the cemetery, planting flowers in the Blodgett garden.
We embraced service, life and loss, and it was all good!
Lacey made the creation of the day.... Patriotic cake!
Now, that's an eclectic picture, you're saying.... Why are the cakes on Barilla Fettucine boxes? Is this a new thing?
Well, this is what happens when you need to reassemble your 140 year old oak table and haven't done it yet.... and there was no place to set the cakes to cool where little kids couldn't/wouldn't get them!
These are 6" cakes, white cake dyed to the appropriate colors....
And this is triple berry sauce on French vanilla pound cake from Sam's Club... I made the berry topping by thawing triple blend berries and slicing two pounds of fresh strawberries into the berry mix, and adding about 1/2 cup sugar and letting it sit for about 20 minutes....
So we had red/white/blue desserts covered!
Happy Baby Alert!!!!
Happy Baby Alert #2!!!!!
And then here....
Finn, Morgan and MacKenzie, with a little berry snack and fun going on....
A beautiful day.... A happy day, with a few bittersweet moments, and that's okay.
We're into planting season here, and there's always a project or two
going on, so as the fresh veggies go in and start to produce, we'll have
some fun on the farm! And we're going to try old fashioned rhubarb
custard pie, a Ruthy favorite!
Wishing you a great week from all of us at Yankee Belle Cafe, excited about summer!
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This cake looks so wonderfully festive!
ReplyDeleteSpring is finally here in South Dakota, and we're expecting summer-like temperatures for the holiday weekend. There's nothing like the beginning of summer, is there?
I forgot to say that I love these rerun posts where we get to see the bigger kids as little ones again. Such great memories!
DeleteJan, I thought the same thing about how much the kids have grown!!
DeleteHope you get to finally enjoy some hot weather!
Jan, it's nice here, too and it always reminds me that no matter how impatient I am in March, spring comes in May... and sometimes late May at that!... in WNY!
DeleteI want that cake, Ruthy! You know me and cake. When Marie Antoinette said, "Let them eat cake," she was thinking of me. Now I wish I had family coming in so I could make it. But without family, I will eat it all myself and, well, that's never a good thing. It is while I'm eating it, but then later... Not so much. But I can save this idea for the Fourth of July. Yay!
ReplyDeleteMindy, one of the benefits of having our daughter living at home again is getting to bake with another mouth to feed. :)
DeleteMissy, that's what I missed in quarantine.... I had to take things and drop them off on sidewalks and mail them to faraway places because I love to bake but I don't want to have to buy new clothes.... so it was a conundrum! Mindy, I know, it looks so festive and wonderful. I love it!
DeleteSuch a pretty, festive cake! We just had our Victoria Day -- I think sometimes your Memorial Day and our Victoria Day coincide? Anyway -- no fancy cakes were had by me. :-( But I'm fixing to make a lemon meringue pie this weekend just because it's HOT outside!!!!
ReplyDeleteKav, you just sounded like a southerner when you said "fixing to make"!! I love it. You sound as if you live right here in Georgia. :)
DeleteEnjoy your pie!
Ditto, Missy, she is Southern by nature, clearly!
DeleteAnd Kav, Happy Victoria Day! God bless you and all of our Canadian friends!
What a fun, pretty cake!! Thanks for sharing again, Ruthy! Especially since you filled in for me in a pinch. My brain flaked last night! Sometimes lately I don't even know what day it is. :)
ReplyDeleteMissy, I was bad before the Covid 19.... and it's just worse. I have to set the timer on my phone for anything because there was nothing-- literally-- for two months. And that's a hard habit to break!
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