The Man-Cub made a vegan Birthday Cake - using my old Yellow Cake recipe(http://affectioknit.blogspot.com/2007/05/caramel-cake-mans-mom-used-to-work-for.html) and decorated it with 'boughten' letters - that's a word that you hear up here a lot...
The icing is from http://www.vegan-food.net/recipe/363/Chocolate-Frosting/and the Man-Cub said it looks just like the "glossy" icing that Dinah frosts the cakes with in the Bobsey Twins books he reads...
The night before - the table was loaded with presents...
...what could possibly be in all those BIG bags...
After breakfast - I couldn't wait any longer - we lit the candles (a lot of them)...
...sang the song and opened the presents...
There's a SoyQuick soymilk maker and 20 lbs of Laura soybeans - a bike kickstand and back rack - a Mandarin shirt, bathrobe and tea from my sweet sister who went to Beijing this year - it's all good and I love it...
The pretty red top - will be perfect for Reformation Sunday...
The pretty blue robe - matches the Man-Cub's...
A closeup of the tea ball - it smells heavenly...
And it opens up just like a real flower...
...beautiful...
...Then it was time for tea and cake...
YUM! A wonderful Birthday!!!
very nice day for you!! and don't be insulted by the sizes - the Chinese are a very small people! i felt like a giant over there! glad you enjoyed....btw the soymilk reminded me - i tried to make some instant jello pudding with some soymilk you left a the house...and it didn't set up! weird....
ReplyDeletelove, k
I don't know about that - I've only made cooked pudding - but it sets up fine. I'll check some of the vegan boards and see if anyone knows why.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the pressies...
Love,
T
Happy Late Birthday! Looks like you were treated like a queen. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks again Cass,
ReplyDeleteIt was nice - the Man-Cub still enjoys birthdays a lot...