Anniversary Treats

Every year for our anniversary Cobi and I make each other gifts.

The tradition started on our first anniversary. I was still in school and Cobi was working on a startup so neither of us had money, so I joked that we should make each other gifts out of macaroni. The idea took off, and the Pasta Anniversary was born.

Year Two the theme was Lego. Year Three, Sewing.

For the Pasta Anniversary he made me a pasta ski racer.

 

For the Lego Anniversary he took this ^ picture…

 

And made it out of Lego.

 

And for the Sewing Anniversary he made me a Onesie!!

 

As you can see, each year Cobi blows me away with his gifts. His are ALWAYS better than mine, and I wanted to beat him this year.

(The Anniversary is a full-on competition, not a celebration of our love or whatever.)

This year the theme was Baking.

Cobi is going down.

 

As soon as we decided on the theme, I knew exactly what I was going to make. I just wasn’t sure how I was going to do it…

First I started with some batter. Vanilla with M&M’s, sounds perfect!

 

Spooned it into a long baking pan and tossed it into the oven.

 

While that was baking I prepped the next batch of batter, which was full of chopped Reese’s Cups.

 

These ones I split into two smaller pans and baked.

Any idea what I’m doing yet?

 

Last was Vanilla Batter with White Chocolate and Peanut Butter Chips.

 

That didn’t seem like enough, so I added Skor bits.

 

Again I split it into two pans and tossed them into the oven.

 

After all the cakes were baked and cooled it was time to get started. I slopped some sugary frosting on half the cake.

 

Then I started piling the square cakes up.

 

 

Once the cakes were stacked and carved the way I liked, I covered the whole thing with white frosting.

 

What does this look like to you?

 

No Anniversary gift is complete without some Fruit By The Foot!

 

I cut up strips of Fruit by the Foot, separated the red and the blue, and wrapped the different coloured strips around Pretzel Sticks.

 

Et Voila! Ski gates! Now do you see where I’m going with this?

 

Now to add some fun details. I melted down some white chocolate and added green food colouring.

 

I dipped mini Ice Cream Cones into the green Chocolate to make…

 

Trees!!

 

I sprinkled some Coconut on them to make them snowy.

 

Looking good so far!

 

Now it’s time to make a skier Cobi.

No one likes fondant, but it’s the easiest way to make figures. So I made fondant out of Mini Marshmallows and Icing Sugar! Much more delicious, and super easy to make.

 

Looking a little bit like the Michelin man, but just wait til he’s painted…

 

Just look at that puffy red jacket and radical goggles! Cobi to a tee.

 

Next came the corduroy pants. Melted chocolate should do the trick!

 

Pasta skis, spaghetti poles, and a mini Reese’s helmet and he’s the perfect racer!

He was a bit top heavy and kept falling backward so I used a wooden stake to keep him up.

 

I used the extra fondant and Reese’s Cup to make a snowman, with spaghetti arms painted with chocolate.

(Note the rum in the background… it was instrumental in making this cake happen)

 

I had a Fruit by the Foot and some melted chocolate left over, so I decided to make a banner.

 

I put all the pieces together on the cake and was really happy with how it turned out!!

 

Look at the terrain change on that hill. Just like a race on Knight Flight!

 

Love it!!

Want to see what Cobi made for me?

 

Chocolate Bacon Caramel Brownies with Caramelized bacon, covered in a Dark Chocolate Ganache and surrounded by more homemade Caramel and Caramelized Bacon Bits.

Boy does he know me well.

The inside was full of layers of Caramelized Bacon, Caramel, and Chocolate.

 

Oh, and he made me Ice Cream! Bacon Rum Ice Cream to be exact. I can’t even explain how good it was.

 

Happy Anniversary indeed!!