Sadie's 10th Birthday Cake

Sadie designed, baked and decorated her own birthday cake this year.  

Mom just watched.  Logan and Oliver helped with the eggs and 

Maple was lots of help with the apron ties.

Cake Ingredients

Devil's Food Chocolate Cake Mix

Raspberry Jelly

Chocolate Fudge

Chocolate Chips

Decorating Supplies (Look in your pantry and create with what you have)

Girl Guide Cookies

Coconut

Marshmallows

Lilac Buttercream Icing

To make the cake check out the photos below and use your imagination.  Sadie designed her cake on paper first with her "pantry ingredients" in mind.  She added chocolate chips to the batter to make the cake a bit "richer".  When the cake was cool and ready to decorate raspberry jelly and chocolate fudge were spread between the layers.  A lovely lilac buttercream icing  became the decorating base and then the cookies, coconut and marshmallows topped off the cake.  

The design

Turkey Crepes

Thanks to neighbor Pat for this idea to use up leftover turkey. 

Crepe Batter:
2/3 cup flour; 1/4 tsp salt; 1 tbsp sugar; 4 beaten eggs; 1 1/2 c milk; 2 tbsp melted butter.
Sift dry ingredients. Combine eggs with milk, gradually beat into dry ingredients until batter is smooth.   Stir in butter Chill batter 2 hrs.  Brush a small heavy fry pan with butter and heat until a drop of water sizzles.  Pour a small amount of batter (2-3 tbsp.) into pan and tilt pan to form a very thin layer on bottom.  Cook over medium heat until lightly browned on one side.  Turn and brown other side.  Repeat until all batter is used.

Cheese sauce:
2 tbsp butter; 2 tbsp flour; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp dry mustard; dash paprika; dash cayenne; 1 1/4 c milk; 3/4 to 1 cup grated cheddar cheese.
Melt butter, blend in flour and seasonings.  Gradually add milk. Stir and cook until smooth and thick.  add cheese and stir until melted.

Turkey Filling:
1/4 c. finely chopped onion; 1/4 c. finely copped celery; 2 tbsp butter; 1/2 c. chopped mushrooms; 2 c. finely diced cooked turkey; 2 tbsp chopped almonds; 1/4 tsp salt; dash of pepper.
Saute onion and celery in butter until onion is transparent.  Add mushrooms and cook 1-2 min. longer; add turkey, almonds, seasonings and 1/2 cu. of cheese sauce.  Place a spoonful of filling on each crepe and stack or roll.  Place crepes in a greased baking dish, brush with a little melted butter and bake at 400F until heated (about 10 min.)  Pour remaining cheese sauce over crepes when serving .

Makes 12 crepes.