Today is my birthday, and that absolutely puts me in a cake kind of mood. We are actually celebrating my birthday on Saturday. I don’t know exactly what my dear husband has planned, but I was given the gentle directive “dress fancy” and was assured that there will be cake. I got lots of fun prezzies, including a subscription to a cooking magazine and a gift certificate to a cooking store. Does my family know me or what?
Enough digression! This post promised cake memories. When it comes to birthday cakes, my taste runs purist: white or yellow cake with stiff, sugary white buttercream. My first cake, and maybe my most favorite birthday cake ever, was in the shape of Donald Duck. The pictures that document the occasion show me with blue and white frosting fully cheek to cheek across my face. My mom was not big on baking birthday cakes—especially in the dog days of August—and often got them from a local bakery. She would ask for basket-weave decoration around the sides or elaborate ruffles and string-work, and she would always ask for multiple roses. Our family tradition was to buy more cake than we needed and to eat it for breakfast the next day.
I will report back on Saturday about my cake. In the meantime, here are my faves from BettyCrocker.com. Who wouldn’t want one of these?
Dinosaur Cake
Pink Castle Cake
Butterfly Cake
Chocolate Checkerboard Cake
Chocolate Turtle Cake
Need a laugh today? Check out one of my favorite sites that features hilariously wrong (or ugly or weird) professional cakes: CakeWrecks.com.