I consider myself lucky, because my family never moved while I was growing up. This meant that I never had to deal with such things as switching schools and making new friends. I made friends and grew up with them. Seriously, there were kids that I met in Kindergarten and graduated high school with. Crazy, eh?
Even crazier is that I am still friends, or at least as friendly as we adults-with-young-children can be while handling our familial duties. Basically, we Facebook stalk eachother. Don’t judge – you know you do it, too!
ANYWAY. One of these friends is sweet Christina. She came to my 13th birthday/slumber party and got her awesome, dyed hair (seriously, I loved her hair…she colored it and did stuff with it. I was clueless and had a perpetual ponytail in middle school. Actually, not much has changed for me in the hair department to date…) stuck in my blow dryer and remained friends with me even after I couldn’t keep myself from laughing at her crazy predicament. Sorry about that, Chris!
Fast forward a decade or so and we’ve gone our separate ways in pursuit of adult lives, and I’ve recently moved back to my home town after being gone for five years. I was leaving my new job for the evening when my coworker’s girlfriend walks in the door – and it’s none other than my long lost Christina!
Long story short, Christina and Rich and I all became friends and I went to their wedding and everything. Pretty sweet, eh?
Last weekend Rich had a birthday, and Christina asked me to make his cake. After some haggling about flavors (she originally wanted a carrot cake, but I haven’t found a carrot cake recipe that really knocks my socks off) we decided on a hummingbird cake with lemon frosting. Good choices, I say! I decided to decorate it with bowling cookies, and this is the result:
I used this Nutella Cut-Out Cookie recipe from Jen at My Kitchen Addiction and let me just say that I had a very hard time keeping myself from eating *all* of the cookies right out of the oven. Of course I tried a few dipped in Nutella as Jen suggested, and oh my wow. Y’all need to go make some Nutella sandwich cookies, and fast!
For the cake and frosting, I used these Food Network recipes. So, SO yummy. Especially that lemon zest frosting…goodness. I could spread it out in a pan and eat it like cheesecake. What?! You gotta try it.
Happy Birthday Rich!
-Becki
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Your cake is so cute! I love all of the bowling pin cookies. So glad you enjoyed the Nutella cutout cookies!
i too grew up in the same hometown and went to K-12th grade with all my friends!! i loved it 🙂 (andrew on the other hand went to a ton of different schools – including 4 different high schools!! poor army brat……….)
the cake looks great!! i’m ok at making stuff taste good – the decorating part, not so much. i’m very impressed!
What an adorable cake!