"oh the weather outside is frightful..."

There has already been a state record amount of snowfall last month in CT, with over 47.8 inches of snow, topping the previous record of 45.3inches set in 1945.

So needless to say we all had some cabin fever and these kids needed to get out of the house! So we took our cake adventure to my mother's kitchen and we had a little help...

To welcome February and undoubtedly more snow we decided to make a snowball cake! Remember those hostess snowball cakes, so YUMMY.

We wanted one, a BIG one. we weren't exactly sure how to make this ball of a cake tho, so after some research we found that you can bake a cake in a bowl (oven safe bowl of course.. like these Pyrex Prepware 3-Piece Mixing Bowl Set, Clear) We decided on a chocolate cake with a cream cheese filling and a sugary frosting, coated with coconut.

The only thing is when baking in a bowl it took FOREVER to bake, we wanted to make

sure it baked all the way through without burning the edges so we kept the oven at 300 and baked it for an hour and a half!! But it was well worth the wait.