A big hunk with Snickerdoodle Cake Recipe!

My birth-day was simple and easy.

I treated myself to a homemade Snickerdoodle Cake.  I saw this recipe on pinterest awhile back and it kept popping back in my mind.  I LOVE cinnamon flavors and scents.  Basically, anything with snickerdoodle in the title draws me like a magnet.

Snickerdoodle Cake Recipe

1. preheat oven to 325 deg fahrenheit and butter and flour 2 round pans
  (I use 9 inch but 8 inch would be just dandy)

2. Whisk together

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 Tablespoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon

3.  In a separate bowl cream together  till they are nice and fluffy

2 sticks (softened) butter

1 3/4 cups fine sugar

1 cup sour cream

4.  Add  to cream mixture one-at-a-time

4 large eggs at room temperature

add

1 Tablespoon Vanilla

5.  Now you need

1 1/4 cups whole milk (room temperature) 

Don't let this confuse you, 

 add 1/3 cup of flour mixture to cream mixture....a little milk and stir....

1/3 cup of flour mixture.....a little milk and stir.....

etc, until all the flour and milk are added

Bake until a toothpick comes clean.  Mine took a little under 30 minutes.
Cool before slicing again and frosting.

I {gently} altered the cake recipe I found on this food blog.
Yes, her's looks better..I know.  But mine was de-lish!  I would have paid the big bucks to buy it in a fancy restaurant.  I'm talking $7 or $8 bucks.  It was that good.  {silly grin}

I wanted some cream cheese icing.  Since I'm the birthday girl I indulged!  I basically played around with the icing and just dumped...tasted...stirred...slurped....until it was to my satisfaction.  My wonderful (humidity proof) butter frosting recipe was my base.  Then I added a big hunk of cream cheese.  We bought it in a big long block and I've been saving it.  I added a few shakes of cinnamon and a few more cups of powdered sugar.   Yummy and a big {2 thumbs up} from the kids.  Do you hear that?  It's calling my name.  Be right back!

{mom quickly exits to kitchen, on tip toe and sneaking around corners to avoid the children}

The princesses made me a BIG birthday card....out on the driveway.  I mixed up some sidewalk paint.  What?  You've not done that yet?  Oh, you gotta try.  It is sooo easy and really fun.  Here's how I do it.

After feeding my princesses cake and ice-cream for lunch {gasp} {whisper...."I can't believe you'd do that"}we all went for a walk on the beach.

Prince and Brynlee found some friends to visit with.  The other girls and I tried forever to catch some tiny little fishes playing hide-and-seek along the rocky edges of the water.  We never caught a single one, but we gave it our best effort.  They are fast little squirts.

There was a storm out at sea and we could see the rain and dark clouds.  Beautiful.  Before we came home though, God had painted a beautiful sunset across the Caribbean.  Special.