June's Theme

I think I've picked an exciting theme for June! It's: Pop!

You know, Soda, Cola, Coke (as some strange people call all pop :o)), Sodi-Pop... you get the idea right? You may be thinking, what?!? This is strange! What am I supposed to do with this? Well, let me tell you, there are many great options out there. Let me show you! But first, let me provide just a bit of a story of the reason I came to this decision.

Last week, Stephanie decided to bring root beer floats for snack at work. I was so excited! I hadn't had them for so long. I grew up making them with chocolate ice cream and root beer. So eating the "typical" floats has never been my favorite, but I enjoy them nevertheless. This made me think, there are several variations of the float that people could make -- vanilla ice cream, chocolate ice cream, root beer, coke, dr. pepper, chocolate syrup -- am I right?? Variety is the spice of life! A few days later I was looking at some food blogs and I stumbled across someone who had recently made the Root Beer Float cake from the 'Baked' cookbook. I have this cookbook and it's recipe I've been wanting to try! She made this cake sound so appealing on her blog and she served it with some vanilla ice cream -- it made up my mind, I have to make this cake this summer! Then I thought, "Well, I might as well try to make it into a theme and make it in June (the sooner the better!)." So I thought about what I could make my theme for June... and the rest is history.

You can be as creative, simple, extravangant, plain jane, or over-the-top as you want. But I will list below a few ideas if you're having difficulty seeing the wonderful directions where this could go.

Root Beer Float Cake! Yes, this is the one I plan to make! Oh, and she posted it on my birthday... it was meant to be :o)

Come up with your own variation of root beer float! Oooh like THIS one!

Cherry Limeade-- Yum!

Root Beer Float Cupcakes

Spicy Dr. Pepper Shredded Pork - we made it and loved it! Just be careful, it is quite spicy!

This Perfect Pound Cake looks great!

Or last, but NOT least, these apple dumplings are simply delicious! I made these a couple of times last fall and they were terrific!

Happy 1st day of June!

To life... full of *pop*!