Sunday 8 April 2012

Two





Opening presents / Playing with her kitchen / Eating cake / Out in the snow / Birthday cards / Cake

On Wednesday it was Chloe's 2nd birthday. It feels so weird to say I have a two year old now! I really don't know where that time has gone. We had planned to take her to Tropical World in Leeds and for a picnic in Roundhay Park but the snow soon put paid to that idea. Instead we just had a day of opening presents and eating lots of cake. We bought her a play kitchen with lots of little bits to go with it. She really loves it and has lots of fun making us 'meals'. My mum got her a big keyboard & an easel because she loves music & drawing. My plans for a four layer pink ombre cake went slightly awry when my first two layers fell apart as I tried to get them out of the pan! I couldn't find any parchment paper so they stuck to the base. So I just made the second batch bright pink and then covered them with buttercream icing. I definitely underestimated how difficult writing icing can be so it looked a bit rubbish. Luckily it tasted much better than it looked. No one visited us so four layers of sponge would've been a bit excessive anyway. Despite the snow I think Chloe had a nice birthday. She loved all her presents and her cake. Hopefully next year she'll have some little friends to invite too.

18 comments:

  1. Wow!The cake looks amazing

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  2. The cake looks amazing! Hope she had a lovely birthday :)

    Caroline x
    Caroline's Catwalk

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  3. happy birthday chloe! your daughter is sooo sweet ;-)

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  4. What an amazing cake! Chloe is absolutely beautiful too, such a little doll playing in her kitchen (: hope she had a great birthday. xx

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  5. Happy birthday chloe!
    I know the time goes so quick, my little girl turnt 3 in dec.
    What a awesome cake!
    I was thinking of taking my little one to tropical world in the summer, as were not to far from leeds! hope you get to go soon <3

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  6. Aw cute cake!

    Happy Easter!

    http://juffielovesstyles.blogspot.co.uk/

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  7. Happy Birthday Chloe :)
    She is super cute :)

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  8. oh gosh, that cake looks so good! my mum made me a multicoloured one for my birthday last year, it was so good! xx

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  9. awww wow! thanks for sharing. that cake looks AWESOME

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  10. happy birthday to Chloe! She's so cute, the cake look absolutely divine as well!

    xxx

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  11. thank you for following me, now following you!

    Lovely pictures and i wish Chloe a wonderful birthday!! :)

    xoxox

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  12. Happy Birthday to Chloe. I hope you both had a lovely day!

    Emma x
    http://beautyandrags.blogspot.co.uk/

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  13. Chloe is beautiful!! my little girl turned two not that long ago!! dont know where the time goes!
    and that cake looks scrummy!

    I love your blog! your style is great!

    esme x
    http://esmehearts.blogspot.co.uk/

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  14. Chloe is SUCH A CUTIE! That cake is bloody amazing Caroline, i look forward to seeing next years cake already ;) I think i could spend hours playing with the kitchen set too, haha, probably safer than a real kitchen for me ;) xxx

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  15. Awww lovely photos, sounds lovely and exciting! Amazing cake, big fan of the bright pink sponge!

    wishfulsinfulyou.blogspot.com

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  16. Oh she's such a cutie! Looks like she had a great day xo

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