Memorial Day Baking

We had a wonderful party yesterday. The weather cooperated too.  I will show more pics after I sort through all of them but for now I will show the desserts.  The cake which my daughter made was the hit of the party.  This is a berry cobbler cake.  Each layer was topped with an oatmeal crunch and spread with a berry compote.  It was finished with a cinnamon buttercream and topped more oatmeal crunch and fresh berries.  The guests moaned and groaned as they ate it.  I caught my husband squirreling a piece away to save for later.

She made nutter butters too.

I made cherry pies.

 With cute little painted cherries on top.

I color egg yolks with food coloring to paint the cherries.

My Polish friend, who told me that cherries are a very Polish food, took one whole pie home with him.

 He said it was the best cherry pie he ever tasted.

 I made patriotic sugar cookies with a vanilla butter cream frosting.  One guy ate half of them. I think a lot of people have food hangovers today.

I also made brownies because what's more American than a rich chocolate brownie?  More tomorrow.