I'm not a huge fan of making cakes.

Don't get me wrong I love doing them, but they never come out just like I want them. They aren't like cookies and cupcakes. With those I can make extra and if I mess up, I just toss that one and make another. Not so with cakes. We don't bake four and five and choose the best one.

However, when the wife of a soldier contacts you to make a cake for her returning husband....

you say YES!

Then you pray the darn thing comes out good and they love it.

She had a picture of what she wanted, the cake design is NOT my own, but one she found online.

We changed it a bit and made it for a soldier.

Her husband is a HUGE Superman fan, so it was perfect.

It came out great and the customer loved it.

Welcome home Soldier!

Thanks for your service and a job well done.

You're wife missed you and we are all very glad you are home safe in her arms.

Cut out superman logo

Cut out yellow background and place logo on top

Roll out round piece of fondant in blue. Make sure it's the size of your cake top.

Make camouflage fondant. Roll in circle size of cake top. Slice top to center. Fold back at cut to form collar. Add name tag. Ice the rest of cake and trim.

*Name has been blacked out for security purposes*

~Throw on your heels and get to baking~

Do you ever feel like you're raising little pigs?

I mean seriously I think I have pigs in my house. I've never seen something disappear so fast.

They eat so much of this they just about get sick.

My husband hates nuts.

Hates.....now this is hard for a New Orleans girl because we live off of seafood and pecans. It took me forever to get him to eat seafood.

He may have started liking it because he would have starved otherwise. I cook with seafood a lot.

I've adapted the recipe to suit what we like.

Since the hubby doesn't eat nuts I left them out and I added more pineapple.

This recipe is very easy to make and has to be one of the best I've had.

It's older than dirt.

When my mother died a few years ago all her cookbooks were given to me so it's cherished....even though it smells of mothballs...lol.

Hawaiian Banana Nut Bread

(adapted from The Southern Living Cookbook)

3 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

2 cups sugar

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts

3 eggs beaten

1 cup vegetable oil

2 cups mashed ripe bananas

1 (14-oz) can crushed pineapple, drained

2 tsp pure vanilla extract

Mix together flour, salt, baking soda, sugar and cinnamon. Stir in nuts. Set aside. In separate bowl combine remaining ingredients then add to flour mixture. Just mix until ingredients are combined.

Spoon batter into 2 greased and floured loaf pans.

Bake at 350˚ for 1 hour 15 minutes or until you can insert a toothpick into center and it comes out clean. Remember every one's oven is different and you may need to adjust the cooking time or temperature.

Cool bread in pans for 10 minutes then remove from pans and allow to cool on a wired racks.

~Throw on your heels and get to baking~

A Superhero Cake for a True Hero

Hawaiian Banana Nut Bread....without the nuts

Baking in Heels