Let Him Eat Cake!

On Sunday, I spent the day making a cake unlike any other cake I've ever made! A Strawberry Cream cake from Cooks Illustrated for Bill's Birthday Monday night. I actually baked the cake on Saturday night (with cake flour even!) which was really smart because it had time to completely cool be Sunday when I had to slice that bad boy in thirds.

Me cutting strawberries... notice the 3 slabs of cake in the background

Me and my little helper, who was in charge of licking the beaters,
stealing stray strawberries & taste-testing the strawberry syrup.

Taaaa Daaaa!!! The finished product.
Three fantastic layers of strawberries, lard & love.

We couldn't wait until Monday night to try it, so we celebrated
Bill's birthday early (at least the cake part anyway).

Happy, happy boy.

YUM! Recipe gets an A++ in my book, and not nearly
as hard as I thought it was going to be!

More to come:

• Pictures of B's finished mittens
• updates from NY
• more/new knitting news?
• Christmas presents!?