A Birthday Bundt Cake
One of our church’s community groups meets at our house every couple of weeks. People gather, we discuss the morning’s sermon for an hour and then have food, drink and talk together. It’s a lot of fun and a way for us to get to know each other better.
Waiting for Party Time
Mary is a member of our group and I heard that she was turning 30 so we decided to celebrate! Pam brought over a Nothing Bundt Cakes, Bundt Cake and I decided to serve Champagne Cocktails with the cake as a festive way to say, ‘Happy Birthday’.
I had infused some vodka with ripe strawberries and left the infusion in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks. The vodka had a beautiful deep pink color and fresh strawberry aroma. The taste was pure summer. I decided to rim the champagne flutes in the vodka and some sugar.
It was easy to dip the edge of the flute in the infused vodka and then into the sugar.
Rolling in Sugar
Sugar Encrusted Flute
This is what the glasses ended up looking like and then I left them out on the counter for several hours to dry. I do this so the coating doesn’t fall off the rim as soon as someone takes a sip. This coating, after drying, will last through several refills. Of course, that’s supposing the drinker doesn’t lick the coating off first!
The Finished Flute
This was supposed to be a surprise for Mary, so we set out food and drinks as we normally would:
The cocktail itself was easy, I just used the same strawberry infused vodka to make the drink by pouring about 3/4 oz. of the vodka in the bottom of a flute, topping it with Champagne and garnishing the rim with a strawberry. Here’s our Birthday girl with the cocktail in one hand and the beer she was drinking in the other.
Mary Celebrates
Some Party…….huh?
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