My Hubby's Birthday.... and a cake on a budget

Just recently celebrated St. Patrick's Day with my hubby by participating in the St. Louis Dogtown Parade. Yep... he's a March baby!




  So the story of his birthday cake starts out like this........

 Jeremy- "I don't want you spending any money on me a birthday cake!"
  Me- "What, how am I gonna do that?!" 
 Jeremy- "We are over budget this month, so just make me something with stuff you already have here at the house."

We have been successfully doing the Dave Ramsey money makeover for about a year and a half now and have a budget every month.
 (A small note that is has been so Wonderful for us! We now only owe money on school loans and our house. No other debt!!! In the first year we started it, we paid off almost $10,000 of debt, included in that were our cars. Yay for no car payments!!!)

Needless to say our paychecks were a little smaller this month..... so that is no bueno! So I was stuck to using only what I had in the house!

My mind started running and this is what I was able to come up with.....

I didn't have quite enough ingredients to make the cake or buttecream from scratch, so I used a box of devils food cake mix that has been sitting in my pantry for quite some time now, as well as a tub of premade white icing. I had cream and chocolate so I was able to make ganache. You can pretty much make anything taste good by slathering some ganache on it! Yumm!

 Jeremy's favorite colors... BLUE and ORANGE

A Happy Happy Birthday wish to my hubby and the LOVE of my life, Jeremy! <3