Crazy About Cakes

Today we are having our Primary "Meet Your Teacher" Activity.  All of the teachers were asked to come up with a "get to know you" activity to do with the children in their class.  This is what I came up with to play with my 11 year olds.
I bought a variety of candy bars, and will put them in a brown paper bag.  Each child will have a chance to pull out a candy bar.  Each candy bar has a question that goes along with it.  I will go around and have each child answer every question....

We really are that family that gets together and celebrates for EVERY. SINGLE. HOLIDAY, but we always seem to have a blast!  This St. Patrick's Day dinner tradition started when my oldest child was a baby.  It has grown over the years, and is now one...

This cake turned out so much better than I ever envisioned!  It is filled with a delicious strawberry butter cream filling, and a chocolate fudge butter cream filling.  The hit of this cake is definitely the chocolate dipped strawberries that cascade...

I found the recipe to this Walter Mitty Clementine Cake on a blog by Cathy Merenda.  In her post she talks about how one of the through-lines in the film (Walter Mitty) is this cake.    At the beginning of the story, Walter&rsquo...