Birthday Cake with Cotton Candy Frosting

Milestone time!!!

My littlest guy has hit the double digits. He Is TEN.

I can’t even believe that my round-faced little giggle monster is ten years old.

Evan- all books and brains and smiles and laughs. Full of enthusiasm and creativity. Does not like to be told what to do. Ever {He comes by that very honestly}. My little Evan that talks too much and tells me made up facts about falling flying squirrels and calls it science. Evan that likes to leave me notes all over the house and makes me cards for every occasion.

My funny guy that still likes to snuggle me on the couch with books.

He is his own worst critic. He is a really terrible liar (an exceptional quality). But he still tries to pull the wool over my eyes when he spills on the rug or I find candy wrappers under the couch. Evan shares my love of bread and baked goods. Homemade hamburger buns are NOT safe with Evan around. And if you turn your back on biscuits you can just go ahead and count them out.

Evan is sweet and smart and thoughtful. He likes to share. He still likes to show me off.

In Evan’s ten-year-old-boy-brain I think that he thinks I am on some kinda TV bake-off level. So whenever his birthday rolls around he tries to come up with impossible things for me to build out of cake. This year, in one of his attempts to be outlandishly creative, he asked me for a sandcastle cake.

Just thinking about it made me tired.

And since it’s Dr. Seuss week at school all week, and since EVERYONE loves Dr. Seuss, and since we just watched The Lorax for the 326th time, and since Hayley at The Domestic Rebel posted THESE last week… I decided a Dr. Seuss Cake was in order. Evan totally agreed.

We decided on Cotton Candy frosting. Frosting Creations from Duncan Hines are a new thing for me. I usually steer clear of pre-packaged flavored anything, mostly because I have the time to make my own , but also because not being able to pronounce the ingredients in my food kind of freaks me out. Here’s the thing, though- kids don’t care. Birthdays only come once a year. And how else are you gonna make cake frosting taste like cotton candy?

Exactly.

So I made a traditional vanilla buttercream from scratch and then funked it up a little bit. Usually there is birthday cake left after a party.

It’s all gone. Cotton Candy Frosting is insane.

Frosting inspired by THIS recipe at The Domestic Rebel

Happy Birthday to my little sugar bug from the proudest Mommy evuuuuurrr.

Today you are YOU that is true-er than true; There is NO ONE alive that is you-er than YOU!