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Looking for the birthday boy?
It’s not the little guy crawling on the floor, although he’ll have a birthday soon enough.
No, look for the big guy with the same ears and chin as that little guy, crawling on the floor right next to him.
Yup, my two main men both have November birthdays (dear bank account, I’m so, so sorry, love, me).
Hubby turned 32 last Sunday. What do you get the man who has everything and if he doesnt’ have it, he’ll probably just go buy it on his own without waiting until his birthday? I was able to pull a couple ideas out of him and surprised him sufficiently, although one of the gifts I ordered didn’t get there in time.
Now, normally we buy a cake from Walmart for any birthday or special occasion, including but not limited to: it’s Sunday, the Academy Awards are on or UK won a basketball game. Really, any excuse to taste that delicious But-R-Cream icing (r) — just one bite and your heart will skip a beat; not just because it tastes good, but because it has enough sugar to kill a small animal. You’ve been warned. (Don’t you dare judge me.)
The plan is to get a whole mess of But-R-Cream cupcakes from Sam’s Club for Baby Blogworthy’s birthday, so we didn’t want to get too tired of But-R-Cream (r) before his big day. Although I’m reasonably certain that could never happen, I don’t want to tempt fate.
I pondered over what kind of sweet treat I should make for my sweet husband when I recalled a pin I pinned to my sweet treat board weeks ago: Coca Cola Cake. It’s one of his favorites when we go to Cracker Barrel — ooey, gooey and super sweet.
Here is a secret: I didn’t use the cake mix from the original coca cola cake recipe I pinned. I am a semi-homemade kind of girl and if I can cut corners and it still taste just as good, I will. I used a Duncan Hines Butter Fudge cake mix and replaced the water in the recipe with Coke. That’s it.
Mixed it with my Kitchen Aid, then baked the coca cola cake at 350 degrees it in a greased 9×13 pan for 35 minutes. The recipe on the box called for less time, but the toothpick didn’t come out clean, so I put it in for 5 minutes longer until it did.
While the coca cola cake was cooling, the babe supervised the icing portion of our cake cooking.
I followed the recipe on this part.
1/2cup butter
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup Coca-Cola
Let the butter melt, mixing in the cocoa powder and Coca-Cola. Remove from the heat once it’s mixed and slowly stir in four cups of powdered sugar. Four. Cups. Of. Sugar.
After the icing was mixed, I immediately poured the whole batch over the cake.
GAH.
(Ok, another confession: I could totally eat this icing with a spoon. Forget the cake.)
The icing had to set up a bit, so while that was going on, I mixed up a quick batch of buttercream icing, adding blue coloring because it’s my hub’s favorite color. I put the icing in a gallon sized plastic bag and cut a tiny hole in the corner for an icing bag. I piped the icing onto the Coca Cola Cake to personalize it.
I also added his name, some balloons and his age, but I didnt’ get a picture of that. I also decorated the inside of my mouth with the icing.
I did all this Saturday morning before I had breakfast, so by the time it was all finished, I was on a sugar high like you would not BELIEVE. WORTH IT.
The coca cola cake turned out to be absolutely perfect. Hubby said it tasted just like Cracker Barrel’s. Another Pinterest success!
What was your latest Pinterest creation?
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OK that cake is making my mouth water.. I have never heard of it before and my sister works for Cracker Barrel.. I may have to have her bring me some lol. Happy Birthday to hubby and little man
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Yes! Have her bring it to you. It’s amazing.
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I better not let on to my husband that such a thing exists – Coca Cola Cake!! Because that’d mean I’d have to get off my lazy butt and bake it
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You could SO make it..it’s really easy to do. I mean, if you use a cake mix
I don’t mix cakes from scratch at my house.
Hope your husband had a great birthday. My husband and kids have birthdays in the same month too, lots of presents and cake baking all at once!
It’s stressful! And then with us, the holidays are right after! I’m sure It’ll get harder and harder as he gets older because we’ll have to figure out presents for birthday and Christmas.
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Wow – I’m so impressed with your baking skills! Especially the ability to write on the cake. I can never do that without it looking like a total mess.
I love pinterest. I’ve made more meals than sweet treats from there, the most recent one being this easy delicious chicken parmesan: http://pinterest.com/pin/66498531967439361/
And when I just looked for that on my Recipes We’ve Made board, I remembered this easy sweet treat that I did make a couple weeks ago: http://pinterest.com/pin/66498531967415440/
And now I’m hungry.
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I had both of those pinned! But I checked out your Pinterest board of goodies and pinned a couple extra
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Yum! I recently made (and blogged about!) the embroidered handprint I made for Laura’s grandparents for Christmas. Laura really enjoyed having her hand traced, and the embroidery (simple split-stitch) took less than an hour to finish and frame!
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Trying to get to it..I’m goign to check out your post from home! i love Pinterest so much….it’s really changed my life, as goofy as that sounds.
So does this taste like Coke? I’m intrigued.
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No..in fact, the only thing it does is I think make the cake softer and maybe the icing set up a little better. It’s still delicious though.
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I might have to steal, I mean, borrow, Baby B to supervise my baking this winter.
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He’s a pretty good helper …makes everything extra sweet
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Um, just so you know, I’m pinning THIS. Because, yum.
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It was totally Yum. You’ll enjoy it.
I love that Pinterest helped you to recreate a Cracker Barrel cake. 6 months ago, that wouldn’t have been possible. My the world moves fast!
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I also have a pin for Cracker Barrel chicken which I LOVE. And the coolest thing I think about Pinterest is that you tell someone about it and they are usually like, wow…that’s cool. Even people who hate Twitter or FB! I’ve invited three people at work.
I can’t believe you call what you did semi-homemade.
Because that’s more effort than I’ve put into baking throughout the entire 17 years I’ve known my husband.
Poor man.
Hooray, But-R-Cream!
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This is a recent development…I’d still choose But-R-Cream over anything homemade
Mainly because you don’t have to wash the dishes when you buy But-R-Cream.
Happy Birthday, hubs!!! I’m assuming you did not put him into a sugar coma. But just reading that puts me into one.
Also…I don’t know that UK winning a basketball game is cake-worthy, but winning a football game DEFINITELY is!!
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I Did put him in a sugar coma….he just woke up!!
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Decorated the inside of your mouth with icing? Sounds like my kind of decorating.
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How did I not know this kind of cake existed?? It looks delicious!
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I am never going to try that cake because I’m scared I’d love it and I think that might be the one final push my body needs to abandon me completely!
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Oh wow, I’ve never heard of that cake. Happy Birthday to your hubby!
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Happy birthday to your husband! I’ve never eaten at a Cracker Barrel and never had Coca-Cola cake. But after reading your post I think that’s got to change.
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Aren’t you sweet baking your hubby a birthday cake? I love Cracker Barrell but I’ve never heard of that cake – it looks pretty yummy, though!
I’m modeling my Christmas wrapping this year after something I saw on Pinterest. Check me out, getting all craft and whatnot!
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I’d like to “decorate the inside of my mouth” with that frosting too, please. Yummers.
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