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Creamy Whipped Icing

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We make a lot of birthday cakes around here and sometimes people don’t want their icing super sweet like our buttercream icing so I’ve been working on making a less-sweet version and this one seems to be a winner!

If you don’t care for cream cheese you can try it with butter, but we really don’t mind the hint of cream cheese in ours. This also reminds us a lot of the icing we use for my husband’s favorite bean cupcakes… so good! We don’t use any sugar or flour in those and no one ever knows any different!

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Tres Leche Cake: Facil y Delicioso!

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Its been a while since I’ve had a Tres Leche Cake, so I had to give it a go again… it was just as good as I remembered!

You can add any kind of fresh fruit that you like, we used strawberries this time, but you can use whatever is in season, or go without any fruit at all.

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Shyanne’s ‘Two Kind’ Cheesecake

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This recipe was chosen last year for one of the birthdays, but we never actually made it. This year, we tried it out and changed things a bit to work better for us. Everyone loved it, but the original recipe was a little dry. After the changes, it was amazing!

Shyanne really loves this and would ask for the ‘two kind’ cake when she wanted more…lol. This works with any boxed cake mix and would also work with a packaged brownie mix. You could make the brownies as directed on the package and bake them in the springform pan so they could be your ‘crust layer’.

**Special thanks to my son-in-law @moments2lifephotography for the amazing cover photo!

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Dairy Free Cream Cheese Icing

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One of my kiddos who loves Red Velvet Cake recently requested one for her birthday. We had to make it dairy-free… it was a little work but we succeeded. I used a boxed cake which said it was dairy-free.

I’ll try to update this with a printable recipe card later but you can print out the cream cheese icing recipe and write in the changes.

Cream Cheese Icing

Dairy Free Cream Cheese Icing

Ingredients:

  • 8 oz cream cheese (dairy free)
  • 1 stick margarine (dairy free)
  • 1 lb confectioner’s sugar
  • 1 t. vanilla
  • 1 t. Cream cheese flavoring (optional)

Directions:

Cream all of the icing ingredients together and spread on cooled cake.

Sprinkle the top with any crumbs that may have fallen off the cake.

Wedding prep to Hurricane prep – updated with product links!

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Oh, what a week!

We had such a crazy week preparing for the wedding this past weekend… it was beautiful and amazing! We definitely couldn’t have done it without the help and support of our family and friends… thank you all!

We don’t have a lot of pictures to share yet but I will share some when I can… I can’t wait to see them.

Unfortunately, a lot of the pictures were missing or lost somehow… I guess we should’ve had a backup person taking more photos.

I was so busy I didn’t even get to take many pictures at all. We did find a site, weduploader.com that gives you a QR code so that guests can upload pictures that they take… it’s pretty neat!

This first photos didn’t load properly so I’m trying again…

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