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Tackling all those Valentine’s Candies and Chocolates!
Did your kids come home with a box or bag full of Valentine candies and chocolates? Mine did!
Jackson had a fun idea for his candy — use it to decorate a Valentine cake.
Since the poor little guy had bought 5 dollars worth of Cake Walk tickets today at school and hadn’t won the cake he bid on, I conceded and began baking a cake at 7 pm when I should have been having him finish his homework while I put Olivia to bed. But what can I say? I am weak and sentimental!
So my kids were up way too late as I tried to get Jackson to do his homework, while the cake baked!
Then, after it cooled and I got Olivia to sleep, Jackson decorated his cake — while I took photos.
Jackson fell asleep after 10pm, while I sat in his room uploading the pictures from our impromptu cake making session. It was a little crazy and a little stressful because I had him up way too late. But, in the end, it was a sweet Valentine night that I am sure both of us will always remember.
Hope you had a Happy Valentine’s Day!!!
Yolanda says
my baby girl licks the floor. it’s like an addiction with her. so my tackle-it-tuesday was to clean the floor. however, i started off with a smaller goal in case i didn’t accomplish this bigger goal (because i like to keep my expectations low). that small goal was to wash my kitchen sponge. there are two best ways to wash a kitchen sponge, which i share at the end of my blog. anyways, long story short, i didn’t accomplish the bigger goal… oh well. but i did accomplish the smaller goal! yay ME!
Emma says
Thats such a gorgeous idea for left over candy! I found your blog when Iw as looking for a Tuesday meme, so I will be following as it looks like an awesome blog!
Kenna says
I always have extra candy. Great idea! Tackle it Tuesday keeps me motivated to finish the project I said I would. Thanks.
Katrina - says
You’re such a great mom! That cake looks delicious and your Jackson is going to be a heartbreaker, if he’s not already! My youngest is in 4th grade and they already have boyfriends/girlfriends. I bet your Jackson is going to have all the girls swooning over him.
Anne says
It’s always worth it to stay up late for homemade buttercream frosting! This will be a Valentine he always remembers.
JamericanSpice says
You are just a sweet mom. We live and if we are a little late with routine, it’s not missed 🙂
I’m not sure what we’ll do with our candy as yet.
Elizabeth says
What a great idea! Of course you had to eat the cake trimmings and the icing – you have to make sure they taste okay! LOL
Susie's Homemade says
What a cute idea!!!
Dominique says
That’s a really nice idea of using the candy in the cake. I’m sure it tasted great.
Janice says
Thanks Dominique! It did taste delicious — but that was me eating the cake we had trimmed off to stack it and icing while we iced it! LOL
Marni says
Thanks for putting this up for me! As soon as I get the linky to load (has anyone else been having trouble with these the past day or two?) I will link up.
I wanted to let you know too, that your image above is spelt incorrectly. You have 5minTUesformom instead of minutes. I would want someone to tell me. : )
Happy Tacklin’ Tuesday!
Janice says
Ohmygosh! All the millions of times I have seen that and never noticed! Thank you – I will ask the artist to fix it! THANKS!!!
Janice says
Oh and yes – I haven’t been able to get MckLinky to work for two days! I was surprised Susan had one in here!