Tomb Cake Anyone?{8}
Really – when I went looking for Easter crafts – I found a lot of ideas for making a tomb cake. Tomb cake? I just feel like those two words don’t really go together. I do understand the religious significance of this day – though I am not at all religious. And if I had a motto in this life it really might be, “To Each His Own”. But a tomb? Cake? No.
I’d just like to say a quick Happy Easter to anyone who might be so kind as to stop by today. Here are a few photos of our day so far. I hope you’re enjoying the beautiful weather on this Easter Sunday.
Did you make a tomb cake for Easter? What are your favorite traditions? Are you enjoying the beautiful weather? Let me know. Drop me a line!
Apr 08, 2012 @ 16:42:37
I finished off a carrot cake that my friends got at the Troy Farmers’ Market yesterday… it was my birthday cake.. very solid consistency and perhaps the best cream cheese frosting I’ve every had… yum! Gotta go look up what a tomb cake might look like… have never heard of it before. Whatever do you suppose one might “fill” it with????????? the mind boggles.
Apr 08, 2012 @ 16:49:03
it truly does. . .
Apr 08, 2012 @ 21:15:54
Well, my mother in law did all the cooking today but I did make those little deviled egg chickies that we saw on Pinterest and I also made Resurrection Rolls. I bet the tomb cake may have been something along the same lines, but just with a more morbid name? The rolls were something I also found on Pinterest. You just bake crescent rolls as you normally would but wrapped around a marshmallow dipped in butter and rolled in cinamon and sugar. The marshmallow is supposed to signify Jesus, the crescent roll is the tomb. As they bake, the marshmallow is supposed to disappear, so when you break open the roll, it’s gone, just like when they opened Jesus’ tomb. It’s a cute idea, and they tasted really good, but for some of them, Jesus didn’t really disappear, he just leaked out all over the baking pan.
Apr 08, 2012 @ 22:24:04
the tomb cakes are actually really elaborate frosted cakes with a tomb, and Jesus, and crosses, and bushes and trees, and all kinds of stuff on top – usually a big round chocolate chip cookie rolled away from the opening of the tomb – i looked at the rolls – and those are really more symbolic. . . the cakes are very, very, literal. . . and then you eat it. i just think they are really weird.
I’ll bet those rolls were tasty!
Apr 09, 2012 @ 13:01:54
You made your Easter so pretty! Beautiful dyed eggs, loved the names stenciled onto the buckets, and the boiled egg chicks too!
Apr 09, 2012 @ 13:07:05
thanks, heather- the stenciled buckets were gifts to the kids from my Aunt Kathie – she’s a crafty one!
Apr 09, 2012 @ 15:18:51
Where did u get the flowers?
Apr 09, 2012 @ 15:37:38
outside in the yard! don’t you recognize them?