Roland believes that every person should have a cake for his/her birthday. It doesn't matter if they can have cake or want cake or don't like cake. I believe that his motto is "No Birthday is Complete Without Cake"
Usually when Roland's birthday is coming up and people ask, "What do you want for your birthday" he doesn't ask for a cake, but rather a homemade card. But this year was different. I asked what he'd like for dinner and he said he wanted me to make him a birthday cake from scratch. Okay. How very brave of you.
I looked up a recipe under the topic "Birthday Cake" and followed the directions to this one. (recipe at the end of her blog post before comments)
I used blue and white sprinkles as that is what we had. Fortunately for us, his favorite color is blue. Jenna thought I ought to make an even simpler cake using ice cream sandwiches. We already had orange frosting (orange in color, not flavor) in the fridge that I could spread over the sandwiches to look like a cake. I don't think what her final creation was really what she had in mind. We did not get a picture of it before she put it in the refrigerator - which probably was not the wisest move as the ice cream melted, but I suppose it is the thought that counts.
Meanwhile, I had put my cake in the oven to bake while Roland and Jenna ran an errand. I had them pick up some frosting while they were out. My cake wasn't bad looking until I tried to take it out of the pan. Apparently, I did not spray either pan well enough and the second layer crumbled over the bottom. I used the entire can of frosting trying to at least make it look somewhat decent. I think underneath the cake looked even worse than the ugly cake from this post. Jenna took these pictures with her camera though we did not get any of the batter.
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| Jenna's melted "ice cream cake" creation |
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| He did eat a lot of it - even though it was overly sweet. |
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| Roland always lops off the top to make it flat. I thought |
| would try putting the round on top. Big mistake. |
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| Beautiful, isn't it. Like somebody had already broken into it. |
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| We did light the candles and sing happy birthday |
Jenna did not get any still pictures of the cake with lit candles. We sang happy birthday and she used her film feature.
