When it’s time to blow out the candles, what kind of cake do want to see? Homemade? Store bought? What about for your kids? Do you bake the cake? Use a family recipe?
I’ve always considered store bought cakes depressing. Not that I haven’t bought my share. It just makes me feel like a complete failure when I do. On the couple of occasions when I’ve had to buy cakes for my family members (birthdays on the road, one time when I was on bedrest) I’ve even gone so far as to buy a cake AND extra frosting and sprinkles, so I can dress it up and feel like I played a part in its creation.
In my mind the perfect chocolate cake is my grandmother’s chocolate cake recipe. It’s frosted with her chocolate coffee frosting and dotted with maraschino cherries and walnuts. This cake was famous for netting my mother boyfriends, or so the story goes. I think my mom’s resemblance to Marilyn Monroe may have also played a part.
Anyway you slice it, and no matter what you wished for, this birthday cake video from Good Bite made me smile. Need to smile some more? Check out Cake Wrecks and see why supermarket cakes make me laugh till I cry.
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