Had a wonderful Sunday afternoon with the kids yesterday. James and Catharine came down from Boone and Alexandra came down from Winston-Salem to celebrate their birthdays yesterday. I made a wonderful cake, a chocolate beet cranberry cake with a cranberry-strawberry reduction sauce. It was delightful and an original creating. I'm sure the children will never forget the secret ingredient "beets", a half cup to be exact. I got the idea from a show featuring Jerry Sinfeld's wife trying to get the family to eat more veggies. So, she shedded them into sweets.
Great idea.