Celebrating Jbear's 1/2 Birthday!

My favorite part about baking is eating the end result.  Sometimes I think that I'm a really good baker but it's SO not true.  I can NEVER get the cake out of the pan without half of it sticking to the pan or falling, in crumbles, onto my counter.  However, I put 'celebrate Jonah's half birthday' on my birthday list and you can't celebrate without a half birthday cake!!  Please don't take away my blogger card for posting the  atrocity that is this birthday cake.  It tasted delicious but WOW did it look funky!!!



I was wondering how singing "Happy 1/2 Birthday" was going to go since my kid is kind of strange when it comes to that song.  I have never met a little person that doesn't like that song.  Well, now I have and he belongs to me.  I don't know if it's the off pitch voices, his mother pretending she can actually sing, or the loud cheering afterwards but my kid HATES the song!!  


I love making my own buttercream frosting.  Ever since my friend Lee told me that I don't have to use powdered sugar I started making swiss meringue buttercream.  I go back to this recipe from Taste Goblet constantly.  I also used raw sugar which gave it the caramel-ish taste and color.  Dulce de Leche was added in with some frosting for the filling! Yum, yum, yum!!!


And this is Jonah crying to the dessert (before dinner) gods to let him have one more piece.  Oh my goodness the kid is crazy for food.  We could have given him the entire cake and he still would cry once it was all gone.  I'm actually surprised that we didn't get this reaction whilst singing to him.  If you're a mom, does your kid have any quirks like this?  I mean really???  Happy Birthday??