So yesterday was his birthday. In my previous post I shared his birthday dinner that I was so excited was a Pinterest dish. I also got my birthday cake idea and his present from the kids off Pinterest.
If you know my hubby, you know he likes camouflage. So I was pretty excited to find these camouflage cupcakes with camouflage frosting! The original recipe called for making white and chocolate cake mixes then mixing and dying as needed to make 4 different colors of batter. I just used a Duffy brand camouflage cake mix. It was a yellow cake mix and included the dyes I needed.
It made tan, dark green, brown and green batter. To make the cake (or in our case, cupcakes) you put random spoonfuls of each dough in the pan so it is all random and mixed.
To make the camouflage frosting, I used 3 different Betty Crocker frostings. One chocolate and two white (I can't remember and I can't read from the picture if they were white or vanilla). The can on the left is the chocolate with one scoop of white added to lighten it. The can in the middle is white with one scoop of chocolate and some green food coloring added. The can on the right is pure white frosting.
I was so excited with how they came out! Hubby likes to do cake decorating and I wanted something really neat and special for his birthday. And they were yummy!
I really recommend the Duffy brand cake mixes if you're needing a quick cake mix. They even have pink camouflage for the girls, as well as fondant! They are also soy free! I will admit I did chance some soy in the chocolate frosting.
Hubby's present idea also came off Pinterest.
You can see a little more of my drawings here. The original website did have patterns that could be downloaded but I didn't feel like doing that ... like I said, I was being brave!
First drawing - I did 3 layers total, except on some of the finer details ... I only did one or two because it was getting harder to read.
So here's the finished product - the whole purpose is for the kids to drive the cars over Daddy's back and give him a backrub. Plus, it's an easy way for Daddy to spend time with the kids. DD was much more excited about it than he was as you can see by the blur in the corner. Hubby's only remark was there was no road up the middle - good point so I told DD to make the truck we bought go off-roading or her dolls could have a dance party in the open space! lol
So it wasn't a complete flop but maybe not my most successful Pinterest activity ever!
Links below for the shirt and the cupcakes:
http://www.tablespoon.com/recipes/camouflage-cupcakes/5d6ab4cf-bc6f-4dae-8dba-068c19345620
http://thebluebasket.blogspot.com/2011/09/tutorial-car-shirt.html#more
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