Evan's M.A.D. Birthday

Birthdays are usually filled with parties, presents, cake and ice cream.  Evan expects nothing less.  Oh, he knows his cake is not like everyone else's...but that is not a reason not to make it just as special...if not more!

Oh....and this kid does NOT let you forget his birthday is coming!
The day before, it was: "When I wake up in the morning....I'm gonna be 7!!!!" (like every 20 minutes).
And he would say it at the most random times.  We would be talking about a school assignment, or he would be happily playing with cars, when all of a sudden I could feel his energy vibrating and knew what was coming..."HEY MOM!  When I wake up in the morning...I'm gonna be 7!!!"  Yup.  That was our day.  If ever there was a day we were ready for his bedtime, it was then.  Of course it was cute and endearing (the first 347 times), and each time we would smile and confirm his statement.  You couldn't help but smile at his absolute exuberance!

On that special day, he woke to a room filled with balloons.  Well, kind of.  He was so sleepy he came straight into our room (as is his routine) for some "good morning" snuggles and hugs and didn't even notice the balloons!  When he went back to his room to get dressed...SURPRISE!!!  All smiles from then on!  Unfortunately (or fortunately) it was a school day for him.  I packed him a special lunch with a simple "happy birthday" note, and sent him on his 7 year-old way.

To help make his day special, he got to pick what we had for dinner (pizza without the crust), and I made him a special desert that he also had at his party a few days later.  I threw out a bit of a prayer with this desert as I hadn't made it before and some of the previous deserts I had made didn't go over all too well.  This is a recipe I came across on Pinterest.  It sounded good, and looked good, and people had good things to say about it.  SO...jumped in, and grateful I did!!  WOW!  All of us commented on how it tasted extremely similar to pound cake.  Probably the closest thing he has had to any bread in years.  Very tasty...even by us in the family that are not on a specialized diet.

The simple and awesome recipe can be found here:
http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/pound_cake.html

The entire recipe works out to about 6.3g net carbs
Out of this recipe, I made 10 cupcakes (so about .6g net carbs/cupcake)

After making the cupcakes...
1.  I cut off the top,

2.  Added some of his "fluff" (made a batch with berry flavored Stevia drops, and added in 4 blueberries and 2 strawberries for flavor, color and nutrition),

3.  And topped with 2 blueberries and one strawberry.

Super simple!!

With all the add-ons, the net carbs of this beautiful and delicious desert is a whopping 2g net carbs.

Definitely a desert we will be making again!!