We'll make the cake together. You pour the oil (which does look like apple juice, but sure doesn't taste like it, does it?) and count the eggs before I crack them and turn the mixer on low then medium then wow! that's fast! You decide that it should be a dinosaur cake and you, of course, don't mean this to be a joke about age, you're just sure everyone loves dinosaurs. And why wouldn't they?
The cake: chocolate with green buttercream. The dinosaurs will love it.
My mama always used homemade buttercream frosting (butter, sugar, vanilla, splash of milk) and there is nothing like it. Buttercream is sweet and feels good in your mouth and gets a perfect, crystalline, feather-light crunch at room temperature. It is also very good piped onto a finger and licked clean, just like that. And a little will go a long way; try not to ruin your dinner.
Grandpa loves his cake, but I think more than anything he loves you. You help him blow out his candles and he is very appreciative. You blow out the candles in your underwear because there is so much fresh garden soil in Nan's yard, boxes and boxes of it, and you're only human, right?
It's good to be ninety, but I can tell there is nothing like being three.
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Awww...beautiful cake, beautiful post. Happy birthday to your grandpa!
Looks like your daughter is giving Grandpa a run for his money in the candle blowing department.
Your daughter in the dirt (caveman voice): "cake good, dirt better"
-Stu
Awe...I love the cake. Your grandpa looks totally awesome.
And?
I totally have a photo of me like that last one. I took it last week.
...and when the cake is eaten, chances are, you'll roll in the dirt, have to take a bath, end up sleepy bye in bed and dream of just one more piping of frosting on your finger. Lovely, Melanie.
Sweet pungenty sweetness!
Happy Birthday to your grandpa!
Well, that is just a very sweet post. When you're three, all you gotta get your (great)grantdpa for his birthday is your presence. He was very happy watching his tikes rollick about the yard. What must that be like to see your grandkids' KIDS?? Who says working in a tungsten mine is bad for your health? Everyone?
Dear Byron:
See? Commenting is not all that hard.
Warmest regards,
Mrs. McCafferty Slim Brisbane
congrats to your grand father making it to ninety.
Melanie? That is one glorious post.
That is one gorgeous grandpa.
That is one beautiful child.
And that is just how I make my icing.
What a great post. Oh, to live to 90 and be able to celebrate with my incredibly cute great-great-grand-babies........that's the way to go.
What a perfect party; good folks of all ages and dinosaurs of course.
Sweet sweet post.
Aww, this is the sweetest post EVER. Yes, EVER.
Your family is beautiful! Grandpa too, your so lucky to still have him around! I love the photo's of your kids.
So sweet! And your food photos are GORGEOUS.
Thanks for all the nice words, all! And, though he's actually Byron's grandfather, he feels like mine, too.
I sincerely hope that no one posts pictures of me wearing my gardening underwear because, really, I am so not as cute.
Sweet photos, and the cake is adorable. I love buttercream frosting the best, too.
Happy birthday to your grandpa!
I love the garden photo.
Why would anyone ever use storebought frosting?
You are putting away money for your daughter's therapy when she discovers this adorable photo on the 'net when she's 16, aren't you?
Yum. My heart goes pitterpat when I see H with his great grandparents. You must be so proud.
Ooh! I just love that picture of the two of them all puckered up! Fantastico!
Ooh...butter cream frosting...mmmmm..I always keep some extra in the freezer, you know...just in case I find a cake, or cookie or finger that needs it!
These pictures are the best...such sweetness wrapped up into one afternoon...
Naked in the dirt. What could be better.
That is wonderful - the whole thing, but especially the green cake.
THAT'S what I wanted for lunch: ten fingers of buttercream frosting. And an arm. Better start over.
Congratulations to Grandpa. Just imagine, he was three once too.
When I look at some one on the street, sometimes I imagine what they were like when they were two or three or four. I like to think that they were loved as much as I love my children. At least that's what I hope.
BTW - something I say to every one who takes care of my kids: "Dirt is proof of a good time."
Happy birthday to Grandpa!
You crack me up. A dinosaur cake.
BEAUTIFUL! I'm shouting because this was that good.
Happy birthday to your gramp. And happy everyday to you & your babes.
What lovely pictures - and post.
We celebrated my grandfather's 91st birthday in April. I am sure he was far more interested in the fact that the kids had helped baked the cake than what it looked like or tasted like (good thing - it was no where near in your league!)
Glad you had a beautiful day!
Oh, my heart. Happy birthday, happy dinosaurs, happy naked 3 yo.
linked here from somewhere lol.
so glad i did, what a beautiful series of moments, love the way you wrote about them.
what a lovely load of memories
mwah
katie X
I lurves me some buttercream frosting! I'm always disappointed if a cake has that whipped cream frosting.
What a sweet picture of the two of them blowing out candles!! Circle of life, ya gotta love it.
How sweet - the cake and the grandpa.
Okay okay so this must be the cutest blog post on the planet. Hands down!
P.S. Now I SO want dinosaurs on my birthday cake!
Ooh...butter cream frosting...mmmmm..I always keep some extra in the freezer, you know...just in case I find a cake, or cookie or finger that needs it! These pictures are the best...such sweetness wrapped up into one afternoon...
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