First Cake from Scratch!

For Charles' Second Birthday Party (I'll blog about it later), I baked my first cake from scratch! I made the icing from scratch too! The cake was for our human guests.

It was also the first time I used our Kitchen Aid mixer that we got for the wedding. It was a gift from the ladies I used to work with.

I used the recipe from the instruction manual for the Kitchen Aid mixer. It told you what speed to put it on and everything, so that was good.

So here are my pictures from my first experience baking a cake from scratch:

Here are some of my supplies including flour (not including the cleaning supplies lol - I was also cleaning my house for the party)

Here is my Kitchen Aid mixer being used for the first time.

And my phone was being used as a timer

Adding the eggs

I think it was about done at this point

One of the pans all greased, ready to be floured

The cakes baked and came out pretty well, ready to be iced

See they came out pretty clean

Sadly, I don't have any pictures of me making the icing - it was pretty much a lot of powdered sugar and some crisco.

Here is the finished product.
I iced the cake, but DH did the writing. I made the icing from scratch, but not the icing DH used for the writing. I also got to used our crystal cake plate for the first time!