Married to the Empire

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Images from Valentine's Day

The strawberry cake I baked to share with our church small group tonight.



The pink and white roses my husband brought home for me. Pink roses are my favorite flower, and I carried a bouquet of pink and white roses in our wedding. Steven even wrapped them in tissue paper and tied them with a pink ribbon himself.




And here's to hoping that Doogie doesn't figure out how to knock over this bud vase.

4 comments:

AnneK said...

I went and read the recipe for strawberry cake and I am going to try that soon. I love strawberries, and I want to try it out. We have some guest coming first week of March and it might be fun to make it for them then. But I will try it out first. Do y'all only eat organic?

And do you think I can halve the recipe and still have it come out ok? The picture looks like too much cake for just the two of us.

Anne Marie@Married to the Empire said...

No, we rarely eat organic, actually. That's just how the recipe was written. I used regular old (unbleached) all-purpose flour, sugar, frozen strawberries...

We don't eat organic, but I do believe in cooking from scratch. It took me years to find the right strawberry cake recipe. Most of them either involve boxed mixes or jello. I love this one because it's all fresh ingredients, nothing artificial.

I'm sure the recipe would be fine cut it half. It does make a lot of cake. And I'll warn you that the icing is super sweet. In fact, I cut down on the amount of sugar called for in the icing on yesterday's cake. Unfortunately, I didn't cut down on the other ingredients, so the icing never set up properly, but it was still very good.

Ann said...

That's really sweet! :)

ashley said...

I love the cake stand you have! :-) And strawberry cake sounds very yummy. I love strawberries.