Homemade Buttercream Frosting

When my children were small I began making specialty cakes.  First by cutting rounds and squares and rectangles into shapes that I "glued" together with buttercream and frosted with buttercream frosting.

Specialty cakes for birthdays and anniversarys and weddings - I can not imagine how many I have made.  Nor do I have an actual inventory of the specialty cake pans I now own.  Sesame Street and Disney characters and many more.

So today for my grandson's graduation party I made a sheet cake and of course frosted and decorated it with butttercream frosting.  We put it in the house for when the "Cub cake" with his photo airbrushed on was gone.  Then, my neice came through and smiling asked if I had made the cake ... I did but it is in the house as backup ... my grandson said, "cut it."  So cut I did and the gramma made cake with the homemade frosting began to be eaten well before the store bought cake was half eaten.

I hadn't seen my neices in several years and had not met her beautiful children.  It was fun to see them and catch up for a few minutes.  I left about 5:00 so my grandson and his mom's family could celebrate his great grampa's birthday tonight.  I baked that cake too; dark chocolate with homemade fudge frosting. 

Both cakes are on glass plates.  I told his other gramma that was intentional, now we will have to have coffee or lunch or dinner, for sure!  And I know we will.

My grandson plans to attend college in the fall.  He will do well and he will go far.  He is smart and good and kind.  And, he likes "Gramma Gin's homemade buttercream frosted cakes!"