Happy Birthday, Dad!

Today is my dad's birthday and by chance (and choice) he and Roxann are coming to visit!  Love having visitors....hate the "company's coming" cleaning routine.  But all worth it in the end.

My dad has a total sweet tooth and is a sucker for anything made from scratch........actually he'd eat a box of anything off the shelf if it had the word "cookie" in the title, so I won't flatter myself too much by thinking he enjoys birthday goodies of the baked kind.  Anyways, I first made cake balls (i.e. also known as cake pops

It's kind of a bizarre concept and conceive (in my belief) by someone who accidentally dropped the birthday cake (not factual, but I'm telling myself this must be).  Either way it's the best thing to ever come from a cake mix.

Essentially you bake your cake and let it cool.  Then you cut it all up into one giant mess, open a can of frosting and mash the frosting and cake together you roll the "dough" into little balls.  Then you dip them in chocolate or roll them in something (i.e. nuts, coconut, sprinkles).  Sounds healthy, huh?  As if cake with frosting couldn't get any worse on the health scale.  The ones I made were german chocolate with coconut pecan frosting, but redvelvet cake or carrot cake with cream cheese frosting............delish!!

I also made cinnamon rolls to break up our ho hum company visiting breakfast.  They really aren't that hard, I don't know why I don't make them more often.  You bring the coffee, i'll bring the rolls.

Rolls getting ready to rise:

Mmmm, can't wait for breakfast!

Happy Birthday, Papa!!