So August seems to be birthday month. DH’s birthday is today and another good friends’ birthday was yesterday, so there has been an abundance of treats.
DH’s cake: (top) a genoise with raspberry filling 
and chocolate liquor ganache
Cathy’s cake:(below) Chocolate Cupcakes with chocolate frosting
And last but not least, peeps! Actually, peep-ish meringues. The inspiration was
Heather’s duckies. The birthday girl had inquired if it was possible to make natural peeps, and I had to think about it. The answer, BTW, I believe is no. I tried using the veggie food dyes, and the meringue peeps totally…de-peeped…into puddles. I ended up caving on using the food dyes from the grocery store (you know, the ones with blue dye # whatever) and those worked well, as you can see!
So needless to say, there are an abundance of treats at the Casa de Harris.
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First, let me say that those cakes looks absolutely delish! What is it about the sight of chocolate that makes me start drooling? 🙂 And, the peeps looks cute to me. Did they fall after you took the photo?
Chocolate makes me drool, too! I clarified the posts. The peeps with natural dyes were pale and when I added more drops, they fell. The peeps with artificial dyes were…just ducky (couldn’t resist). Were you able to get your duckies to work using veggie food colorings?
No, I didn’t try using natural dyes, just the artificial stuff.
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