Not everyone wants a traditional cake for their birthday. I've got a friend who just loves this brownie recipe I make. My mother-in-law would prefer a Pecan Pie and my father-in-law a Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie.
Here are some traditional and not-so-traditional desserts for your birthday celebrations.
Here are some traditional and not-so-traditional desserts for your birthday celebrations.
1. Traditional Birthday Cakes
My tastes seem to change every couple of years. For my last few birthdays, I've wanted a traditional birthday cake. To me traditional is a yellow cake iced with a Buttercream Frosting.
2. Checkered Board Cake
This is the cake my daughter made for her own birthday a couple of years ago. It really did come out good.
3. Tunnel of Fudge Cake
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I remember for the longest time every homemade cake was made in a Bundt cake pan. This is one of the most popular Bundt cakes.
4. Red Velvet Cake
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This is my husband's favorite birthday cake. He'll ask me to make him that "bleeding armadillo cake." The grooms cake in Julia Robert's wedding in the movie Steel Magnolias was a red velvet cake. It was shaped like an armadillo, because the grooms family was hunters.
5. Pig Pickin' Cake a.k.a. Mandarian Orange Cake
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I just made this the other night for a friend of mine. It's a yellow cake mix made with mandarian oranges topped with a pineapple-whipped topping frosting.
6. Swimming Pool Cake
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This is another one of my daughter's birthday cakes. It's the perfect cake for a child's summer birthday. I think it would also be great at a pool party.
7. Lemon-Poppyseed Cake
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This is my daughter's best friend's absolute favorite cake. Of course, I make it for her birthday every year.
8. Boozy Brownies
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"Skip the cake and please make me those brownies." That's what I do for my next door neighbor. She doesn't drink and yet she wants, and gets, these brownies each year for her birthday.
9. Pecan Pie
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My mother-in-law doesn't care for desserts, but she does love this pie. I try to make it for all her special occasions.
10. Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie
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My father-in-law just loves this pie. In fact, he's been known to hide the pie as to not have to share it. He gets this pie whenever I can make it for him.
