Recipe: Tie Dye Birthday Cake!!

My Mikey turned 31 on Friday!!! What an old little Goober. Well..if you don't consider that he's only 5 months older than me. :)

We had a few of his friends over on Friday night and to celebrate I made him a funky little cake. Luckily he worked on Thursday night so I got everything ready then and surprised him with it Friday morning. He asked about what kind of cake it was and all I said was that it was a white cake. No lie there!! He didn't need to know that I had spend an hour hours slaving over a hot stove in order to get this done for him. OK, so it was like super easy and took me no time at all....but it looked like I did. I was so happy with how it turned out and decided I would share this recipe with all you lovelies out there today!!

I originally saw this idea on Facebook, but ended up youtubing a few different videos to make sure I did it right. I'm so excited with how it turned out. I couldn't have asked for a better outcome.

Tie Dye Birthday Cake

Ingredients:

• 1 box white cake mix

• 3 eggs

• 1/4 cup oil

• 1 cup water

• food coloring in assorted colors

• non-stick spray

Preheat oven to 350º and spray cake pans with non-stick spray. Prepare cake mix according to box directions. Separate equally into bowls for however many colors you want. 

Add desired amount of food coloring in order to achieve the color you would like. Pour each color into ziplock baggie and lock squeezing out any excess air.

Cut small hole in corner of baggie and start to drizzle one color at a time into cake pan. Layer colors on top of each other and repeat until all cake mix has been drizzled into pan. Give cake pans a few short drops onto counter or shake softly to get out all air bubbles

Bake according to package instructions or until toothpick comes out clean when stuck in the middle. Let cool. Frost with desired frosting and VOILA!! Enjoy!!

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It's my BIRTHDAY!! - High FIVE!!!!

Wow...it's been 10 days since I wrote anything here. Sorry guys. It's been busy.

ONE.
     It's my BIRFFFDAAAYYYYY!!! Today I turn the big 3-0!! So many of my friends are upset about it, but I'm actually looking forward to it. Plus, I don't look a day over 29 anyway...

TWO.
     It's the first week of school. I know, I know. I'm not exactly "excited" about having my birthday during the first week of school every year, but....I'm excited to get back into this routine. Although the drive could be a little shorter.

THREE.
     This weekend is Yellowbullet, the biggest race in the country. Of course we will be there allllllll weekend and I bitch and complain every year that my birthday weekend is spent doing everything my husband loves...but truth be told it's kinda fun. As long as it's not hot as hell and I can get my drank on. Then we're golden. But don't tell my husband that...

FOUR.
      My niece just got done her first official week of Kindergarten!!! I called her on Monday to see how everything went and she was super cute. "It was soooo much fun Auntie!!!" were her exact words. She's growing up so fast and getting more and more beautiful by the day.

FIVE.
     I have a long weekend this weekend for Labor Day!! That means I don't have to wake up early for 3 WHOLE DAYS!! This getting up at 6am thing is killling me. I really enjoyed my sleeping in the last few weeks. But Monday is a day all to myself and I can relax and maybe even lay out a little by the pool?!?!

 

Boordy Vineyards - Maryland

If you live in the Baltimore area and have never been to Boordy you are really missing out. My friend's birthday was this weekend and her request was a girls trip to Boordy. I had been one time before and absolutely loved it. It's one of the most gorgeous vineyards I've ever been to in the hills and fields of Maryland. You would never guess that 10 minutes up the road was the city of Towson. 

Every Sunday at Boordy there is an event called Soups in the Cellar. They give you wine tasting mixed with different soups that are meant to compliment the flavor of the wine. Unfortunately, that was sold out for when we were there but it's definitely incentive to head back another Sunday. It was held up in the top of the barn and it was absolutely gorgeous. We asked if they held wedding there and they surprisingly don't. Apparently they get too much business as it is.

After sampling a few wines we decided to buy a bottle of the VivaSangria and sit out on the patio. We drank our wine and cut up for a while and then headed inside again to drink some more wine. lol. 

We decided to go on the tour, which ended up to be the best idea ever because the tour guide gave the responsibility of filling up glasses to our friend. lol. Whoop Whoop!! Needless to say there wasn't much wine for anyone else. haha. It was only small samples, but a bunch of small samples equals a full glass in my case. lol. FREE WINE!!

The whole day was perfect and I was so happy my friend suggested this idea. I can't wait to go back. I forgot how beautiful it was out there. 

And, if you're in the area, check it out!! Sooooo pretty!!