Birthday = Pink

I can never quite wrap my head around the girly-girl thing.  You say "pedicure," I think "complex labor issue."  But apparently, I'm on a mission to bring pink cakes to the table when someone calls "Birthday!"

In the foreground, ginger cookies with lumps of crystallized ginger and some fresh ginger (minced) in the mix too.  The star is a beet cake with crystallized ginger, pecans, and some local goat cheese stirred with sugar and maple for (center) frosting.  

Both were good, but I need to get an oven thermometer.  My cake was a bit dense in the middle and cooked on the edges.  Grrr.