Our Family Valentines Day

We had a fun Valentines Day. I wanted to make a special treat for the day so I went with a chocolate strawberry cream torte.  

 The recipe was technically suppose to be raspberry cream but we had strawberries. It came out really pretty good. I am working on making more things from scratch so this was my first cake all from scratch. I was actually pretty impressed with it and the boys were very excited to try it.   

 I had made the cake a few hours before so they were a little disappointed they had to wait until after dinner. Eric and I got the boys a little heart and were very excited with it.   

 Sup was a little upset because there was the plastic around the heart and he couldn't get right to the chocolates....fyi he has started this thing where when he gets upset he screams and runs to his room throws himself on the bed and pouts for a period of time, lots of fun.... So this happened when he couldn't get right to the chocolates. Even after I opened it for him he had to decided how long he was going to be upset about it so he looked at it for a bit and decided the chocolates were worth trying now that they were opened. 

 After we cleaned up dinner and exchanged our chocolates it was time for the cake and the boys could barely wait of me to cut it. As you can see Sup was very interested in the icing as he "samples" a bit or two as I was cutting it ;)

 I hope at some point my boys will find that a fork works much better to eat cake with...

Don't worry we have a lot of forks for them to use but for some reason it is a lot more fun for them not to use them. Anyhow they dug right in, it was a big hit :)