Birthdays are a Big Deal in this house.
Actually, I don’t celebrate birthdays as much as birth months. I enjoy birthdays so much that one of my top picks on our wedding registry is the Candles and Confetti musical stand and matching dessert plates.
Photos from bedbathandbeyond.com
Fiance actually put up a fight when I added these to the registry! Even if we have two “offspring,” as he expressed in front of the sales girl, we’d only use them four times a year. It was frivolous, he argued. I ignored him and told the girl to add them. I think they’re special pieces that will be such a sweet touch to birthday celebrations.
For fiance’s birthday, which always falls on or around Thanksgiving, I decided to make a chocolate pumpkin marble cake from Back to the Cutting Board. I had toyed with a couple different ideas: Toblerone cake? Classic yellow birthday cake with chocolate icing? But this one seemed just seemed unexpected, and we both love pumpkin.
In keeping with birthday tradition, he picked out the accompanying ice cream: Cappucino chocolate chip gelati, which weirdly went really well with the cake.
Birthday place setting.
I’m already cruising recipes for next year’s birthday — which will taste even sweeter on the (contested) birthday china.
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December 6, 2010 at 9:48 am
MelissaNibbles
My birthday is in a few days and I want that cake.
December 6, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Rachel Wilkerson
That cake stand is awesome! I am banned from looking at cake stands in public. I want one SO badly, but the last time I reached for one on a shelf, it had another one on top of it…all came tumbling down and nearly killed me and Eric.
I totally see the practicality of such an item, though, and if I were coming to your wedding, that’s totally what I’d get you!
December 7, 2010 at 12:22 am
Rose
Happy Belated, Tyler! That cake looks awesome. You outdid yourself!
December 7, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Katy
I stumbled upon your blog!!! I can’t wait to read more! 🙂
December 8, 2010 at 11:40 am
IHeartVegetables
I LOVE Those plates. Oh my gosh. Even if you only use them a few times a year, I say it’s TOTALLY worth it. 😉