So as you all know this past weekend was the 4th of July! Bryce and I celebrated like all good Americans; lazy morning, BBQing dinner and fireworks in the evening.
I spent that morning playing around with the sewing machine my mom got me for my birthday (there’ll be a post about my first project later this week) and baking a S’mores cake. I had gotten the recipe for the s’mores cake from the online cooking blog Annie’s Eats (http://annies-eats.com/2009/09/25/smores-cake/). I thought is sounded like a great cake for the 4th, and it was.
Mmmm...s'mores
I have to admit my cake didn’t turn out quite as pretty as Annie’s. I blame most of this on the fact that I had no parchment paper so I just sprayed the crap out of my cake pans and hoped for the best. Sadly, my cakes stuck pretty badly. However, I tried to strategically drizzle the chocolate in hopes of covering up most of the booboos. Oh, and the marshmallow frosting that is used to garnish the cake? Delish! Fabulous! Amazing! (Like I might have to frost some cupcakes with that in the future.)
However, dinner was amazing.
There is nothing better than meat from the grill. Always juicy and fabulous. Due to the fact that we were apartment dwellers for the last four years, we were not doing any grilling. It was not allowed in our apartment complex. Now that we have a grill we grill out a couple of times a week. Good stuff, let me tell you.
That night we drove out to a subdivision that just never got built to watch the McKinney fireworks. (All of the streets were put in but no house was ever built.) It was a nice way to finish out the evening.
Yay! Fireworks!
Sadly this is the best firework photo I got. This is why I am not a professional photographer.
