Cooper's Birthday Cake

Recently, I stumbled over a cake recipe on Pinterest for a Whopper type cake. Whoppers are our son Cooper's favorite candy. So I went to the Urbane Fruits Blog to check out the recipe.  I think she lives in Canada so her measurement are in grams.  I decided that if we were going to bake this for Cooper's Birthday, I was going to use a fudgey cake recipe that I was familiar with and use chocolate buttercream for the icing. 

So off to WalMart to buy up Whoppers. I bought 40 oz but that wasn't enough because "somebody" ate half of them. So David went back and bought 12 oz more.  Finally enough Whoppers to finish the cake...  Our cake turned out well.  The boys said it looked just like Urbane Fruits cake. But it didnt' to me..

If you decide to make this cake know this,  Whoppers are NOT uniform in size & shape like the Maltesers that Sonja used. Her malted milk balls were perfect and uniform.  You will need at least 40 oz of Whoppers for a 9 inch, 2- layer cake.  We didn't dust ours w/ gold dust like @ Urbane Fruits but you'll see, it looks pretty good.

This is Urbane Fruit's Cake - awesome!!

Our cakes are cooling while we go get the Whoppers.

 Our Cake after we decorated it - not tooo bad.

Our Cake after it was set on fire and attacked!!  It was sooo good! I think we all went into sugar shock afterward. Fortunately our next birthday in this house isn't until September.

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The Birthday Boy w/ his cake!

Revived Seat

Recently a friend reclaimed this little seat from the side of the road and sent it to me and said, "Give it new life".  So David cut a board for the seat so that I could recover it.  I found a great fabric for $7.00 a yard but I really only needed 1/2 yard so it was around $3.50.  I decided to paint it black. The black I use is very forgiving of scratches and wear.  So here is the finished project:

     

I'm still get so excited about a new project that I forget to take a "before" picture. So my before & afters are not that great pics.  I started priming a vintage radio cabinet yesterday and remembered that I didn't take a pic of it when I was 1/2 finished.  Hopefully, I will get better @ documenting my work.