Author: Allie Zottola

Currently: April 2017

Current book Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin.

Current food Banana bread from a friend at church.

Current need A date night with Jimmy. We’ve been busy lately!

Current craving Another pet. I feel like Malcolm needs a feline friend 🙂

I just want our house to look like this + Lola.. and maybe a few more dogs…

Current confession I started mowing our lawn the other day and when I was halfway finished, it began to pour down rain. It has been raining on and off since then… so we have a half mowed lawn right now. Classy, I know.

Current drink Blue Mountain Blend coffee from HomeGoods.

Current beauty product I’ve got nothing here. I am so boring with beauty-related things.

Current indulgence Sending memes to my siblings. This one was so us.

Current obsession Sniffing Lola. Yeah, I know it’s weird. I took her to the groomer and she smells so good!

Current mood Relaxed.

Current excitement The fact that it’s April. Now I can say we will plant our garden next month!

Current procrastination Posting a final recap of our bathroom renovation!

Current blessing Having the Bible as a guidebook for life and living in a country where I have the freedom to read it ❤

Cake Mode II

I am still going strong on practicing baking cakes and cupcakes for Hannah’s bridal shower. I think I have finally nailed down what I’m going to do.

Rosette cake!

The rosette cake before the roses. It’s a chocolate cake with a pink buttercream crumb coat.

Game plan

  • 1 three layer vanilla cake with strawberry filling and buttercream rosettes
  • 1 two layer vanilla cake with buttercream filling and ombre stripe buttercream
  • Vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream rosettes
  • Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream rosettes
  • Sugar cookies with royal icing (for favors)

Here’s an example of the ombre stripe cake. Just imagine it without the rosettes on top! I tried that it didn’t like how it looked, haha.

You can’t go wrong with sugar cookies as a favor, right?!

I think my next step will be to do a practice round of everything at least one more time to smooth out all the details and fine tune my decorating skills. I feel like I could always use more practice to make things sharper, ha.

I am getting so excited! I can’t wait to celebrate Hannah banana ❤