We had our son, daughter-in-law, and grandson over for Easter dinner.
They couldn't come on Sunday, so we had Easter dinner on Saturday. I
planned on making some mini easter egg cakes Friday night, but what
with one thing or another I just didn't have time. I decided to make
the cakes on Saturday morning instead.

I make the mini easter egg cakes using Wilton's Mini Egg Pans. I have
two of the pans. Each makes 8 little 2" x 3" egg-shaped cakes. I frost
each cake and then decorate them to look like easter eggs.

I baked the cakes early Saturday morning with all good intentions of
doing the frosting and decorating before anyone arrived. Then things
got busier than I expected. I didn't even get around to making the
frostings until just before dinner was ready. There was no way that I
was going to be able to frost and decorate the cakes before everyone
left.

Then I got an idea. I asked my daughter-in-law if she would like to
help me frost the cakes. We sat at the kitchen table with 16 little
cakes and two bowls of buttercream frosting (chocolate and vanilla).
She frosted half of the cakes with chocolate and I frosted half of
them with vanilla. Then we piped decorations onto the cakes. Even my
husband and son joined in and piped decorations. My grandson, being
only a year and a half old, didn't do any decorating, but he had fun
watching.

After everyone left with their decorated cakes, I decided that we now
have a new Easter family tradition. I'll make the mini easter egg
cakes, and after dinner we'll all decorate them together.

I think that's kind of nice.

Terrel

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