Birthday Cake

For Isaac's Birthday party I intend to make a cake. I though about making a cake from scratch. But unless you redefine "scratch" to mean the cake mix that is already in my cupboard then I won't be.

However, a plain vanilla cake for a first Birthday sounds boring, so I will have to get creative.

Here is my plan:

Mix batter according to directions. Add chocolate chips. Bake cake in 9 x 13 pan. Make chocolate frosting (milk, butter, powdered sugar, cocoa powder). I'll try to see how much of each I use so I can write down a recipe. But I usually just dump in random amounts until it looks right. Frost cake. Add green food coloring to shredded coconut. Spread coconut on cake to look like grass. Steal animals from plastic Noah's ark toy. Place animals on cake.

Voila! A zoo cake.

And of course I'll have to take lots of pictures of Isaac covered in chocolate frosting.

I went with Loree's idea

Here's our baking/recipe swap blog. No time to post a recipe. Too much to get done.