We are hurtling towards the fall birthdays around here. All four grandparents have birthdays within the next six weeks, about. Starting with GG, celebrated today.
We had a rainbow birthday (Liam's suggestion) and I wish I had thought to take some pictures because I think it looked nice. We had pretty much the entire rainbow represented on the table with green bean and fig salad, nectarine salad (scroll down for the salad), tomatoes salad, purple potatoes, corn and zucchini succotash, and steaks. My mother made fully half the food, which is a big help, of course.
The birthday cake was homemade rainbow chip, and I think I liked it best of anyone. I loved making this cake; I love making almost any birthday cake, but this one really said birthday to me. The frosting is over the top sweet, but the cake has a great texture and flavor. From here, again. Plus, when the play date activity is making rainbow chips from melted white chocolate and food coloring you get a lot of fun mom points, which is good. As soon as everyone left we took half the leftover cake to the neighbors.
Liam is all about choosing what he wants to give for birthdays and he had a very specific idea for GG. Last year he gave her a small wood cat which sits on top of a picture frame in her kitchen. This year he wanted to give a little bird for the cat to look at.
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