Birthday Girl

Today is my daughter’s 2nd birthday. Okay, all together now: Awwwwww!
I’m baking a birthday cake this morning. It was so hard to come up with the right recipe. She loves chocolate (that, of course, is a hereditary trait) and I wanted to do something a little more special than just a plain chocolate cake. After much debate and searching through numerous cookbooks, I decided upon a Mississippi Mud Cake. Devil’s food cake, topped with marshmallow creme, then hot chocolate frosting poured on top and sprinkled with pecans….Mmmmmm…:hungry:

My family grew up with pies. Cherry pie, pear pie, peach pie (my personal favorite), lemon meringue…you name it. We were all about pie, not cake. Once, we made my mother a birthday pie instead of a cake.

I did make “Death By Chocolate” once.
I will say this–the directions were amazing. It took me two days to make all seven layers, but the recipe would tell you exactly what you needed to do. Blend in a food processor for thirty-seven seconds (that sort of thing). It was great. And I learned that when you’re making complicated recipes, the quality of chocolate really does matter. You can’t substitute melted chocolate chips for melted chocolate bars (I tried that once). But in the end, you come with a great dessert.
On the writing front, I wrote another 10 pages yesterday. That’s a total of 21 pages in two days. Gotta love that. I’m not sure how much I’ll manage today with all the birthday stuff, but I’ll plant myself in a chair and write until 8:00 a.m. After that, lots to do!

But I do have a question before I go. What’s your favorite kind of cake? Or are you a pie person?