Since before we moved to Michigan my husband and I were calling it “the land of blueberries and strawberries”, so we had to go strawberry picking this year. On Thursday I went out picking with my youngest daughter Anya to Krupp’s farms here in Grand Rapids. My oldest and youngest chose to stay with Grandma. We picked for about 15 minutes and my three year old got restless but then we had fun at the petting zoo and getting ice cream. We had so much fun in fact that we all went back to pick and have fun the following day. My five year old had a little more patience for picking, I wore Stephen on my back in my Ergo baby carrier and Anya helped out too. Grandma came along as well to help out and get some Strawberries too. We did not pick too long but the strawberries were so dense that we got about half a flat. Stephen was happy as long as I kept passing him strawberries to eat, I would kind of wipe them off on my shirt to hopefully get at least some of the chemicals off. I was happy I wore an old shirt as the back was all speckled with red stains! I felt kind of proud of myself for being able to pick strawberries with a baby on my back.
After our return home, Mary had the idea that we should make a strawberry cake. I found this recipe, Whole Foods strawberry cake and stayed up late last night baking it and making the frosting. Then the girls and I finished decorating it this morning after they woke up.
Strawberry Cake
That’s a great cake!! I bet it was yummy! I am going to print that recipe and put it on file for next year!! Wasn’t it beautiful at Krupp’s? We went twice – and also once at Carmody. =)
Thanks Serenity. I liked the cake but the kids did not so much. Also, the strawberry decorations kind of started to get soft and slide. I was thinking I might send the cake into Cooking Light and see if they might choose it to make over. I found a hard time finding a cake recipe made from actual strawberries though that did not use cake mix. Thanks for reading my blog