Evangeline's party was today.

[conuly]

Every day for the past month and a half, she's asked me if I was making a chocolate cake for her birthday. Sometimes she didn't ask, she just stated it. Recently, she even started upping the ante: Connie? Connie? You know, I yuv you. Yeah, I yuv you because you making CHOCOLATE CAKE for my birfday!

*eyeroll*

So I *did* make a chocolate cake, and despite having to use goat milk for sheep yogurt (that would have itself been replacing sour cream), and having to use cocoa powder for baking chocolate, and not knowing if I put the right amount of boiling water in and having to guess... yeah, despite all that?

Best cake I've made this year.

Light, spongy, delicious.

The frosting was good too.

I rock.

Comments

[sayga.livejournal.com]

It's not true. You CAN buy love! Or at least bake love in the form of chocolate cake. It sounds so delicious....

[conuly]

Oh, if I could only bake so well *all* the time!

I'm definitely using that recipe for her real birthday, though. It was that good.

And it was so cute. We have a tradition of "surprising" people with the lit birthday cake. NOBODY is surprised, but I insist on shooing them out of the room and "keeping them distracted" so they can ooh and aah appropriately. (The kids really get into this, so it must continue.)

So she walks in - albeit a little early due to my misunderstanding - and it was adorable watching her singing Happy Birthday To Youuuuuuu... even though she was singing, I guess, to herself!

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

That is AWESOME! Cakes are SO fickle and finicky, especially when ingredients are changed in any shape or form...and you so totally pulled it off. Nice job! I wish I could have had some. :-D

[sayga.livejournal.com]

It's not true. You CAN buy love! Or at least bake love in the form of chocolate cake. It sounds so delicious....

[conuly]

Oh, if I could only bake so well *all* the time!

I'm definitely using that recipe for her real birthday, though. It was that good.

And it was so cute. We have a tradition of "surprising" people with the lit birthday cake. NOBODY is surprised, but I insist on shooing them out of the room and "keeping them distracted" so they can ooh and aah appropriately. (The kids really get into this, so it must continue.)

So she walks in - albeit a little early due to my misunderstanding - and it was adorable watching her singing Happy Birthday To Youuuuuuu... even though she was singing, I guess, to herself!

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

That is AWESOME! Cakes are SO fickle and finicky, especially when ingredients are changed in any shape or form...and you so totally pulled it off. Nice job! I wish I could have had some. :-D