Have you ever noticed that just about every milestone we come to we celebrate with cake? Weddings, birthdays, and even other holidays all marked with the surgery confection we call cake. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining! I’ll make up a milestone if it means there will be cake. Luckily, I don’t have to as I have a lot to celebrate!
Wedding Cake My husband and I just celebrated our first anniversary. You know what that means? We got to eat the cake top! (Oh yeah, and we love each other.) That cake top dominated our freezer for an entire year, but more than that it dominated our thoughts and the desire for that yummy butter cream frosting on our taste buds. OK, so it didn’t dominate our entire lives or anything that dramatic, but when we reached our first year milestone we were ready to celebrate – with cake.
For those of you who have frozen your cake tops, you probably now that you are supposed to wrap the cake. I didn’t know this. Give me a break – I’ve never been married before! So…the cake sat in a box free to breathe in all the other freezer foods. You can image what our cake top tasted like – freezer burned! The frosting is my favorite part of cake, so you know it had to be pretty bad when I scraped it off and refused to eat it.
The cake itself even a year after its creation was still as divine as it was on our wedding day – a taste of heaven and a reminder of all the happy moments from our special day. White wedding cake – firm yet spongy, sweet yet not overpowering – with a whipped raspberry filling that complimented that cake perfectly.
Birthday Cake
My mom just celebrated a very big birthday. The world has been lucky to have her for 60 years! We obviously needed a special cake to celebrate this very special lady, a special bakery bought German Chocolate cake. German Chocolate is her favorite and I can see why. I’m not usually a fan of chocolate cake, but German Chocolate seems to be sweeter than other chocolate and the cake itself seems to be lighter. But it isn’t the cake that makes this dessert so special, it’s the icing: chunky coconut blended with milk, sugar, and pecans. One taste made me completely understand the phrase “icing on the cake” and instantly reaffirmed my belief that the frosting really is the best part of cake.
This cake was so delicious, that it not only excited my sense of taste but my curiosity as well. I couldn’t just leave it at “oh, that tastes good.” That’s not really my style. No, I decided to do a bit of research on German Chocolate cake and discovered that the chocolate isn’t from Germany
Thank you, Mom, for letting us share in your birthday celebration and thank you for sharing your favorite cake with us! My favorite is still the white cake with butter cream frosting, but German Chocolate is a close second.
Celebrate with Cake
I tasted cake before I discovered that I’m not allergic to milk and eggs – a splurge here and there. Again, what celebration isn’t complete without cake? But now I can enjoy it without having to worry about any reactions later on. I can “have my cake and eat it too” – enjoy my dessert and the celebration. I’m not sure why we celebrate with cake, but I’m sure glad that we do.
