Bill turned a year older on Saturday (October 13). In true grown up fashion we spent most of the day with little pomp and circumstance instead working on projects around the house. However, I don't care what any of us say -- we all truly enjoy our birthday and certainly hope that others make us feel special on that day. I was determined to make Bill's day a good one. Originally I was going to make him one of his favorite meals (a turkey dinner with all the fixings) but then he said he didn't want me to do all that work (secretly I think he knew that I have a tendency to underestimate the amount of time it takes me to cook and for some strange reason I think he wanted his birthday dinner ON his birthday). Bill LOVES white cake (I find this so odd as for me cake isn't cake unless it is chocolate) so I set out earlier last week to find the ultimate vanilla cake recipe. My friend and co-worker Carol came through with a recipe from a bakery in New York famous for their vanilla cupcakes with pink vanilla frosting and sprinkles - Magnolia Bakery. Apparently these cupcakes are so good that people literally line up to buy them and you are limited to four per purchase -- so if you need eight you have to go back and wait in line to buy four more. I guess they were featured on Sex in the City as well when it was on. 
The cake recipe calls for 1 cup of butter, 2 cups of sugar and 4 eggs among other things. The frosting has another cup of butter and 8 cups of powdered sugar! Either this cake better be darn good or the post-cake angioplasty was not going to be worth it!
The cake was actually pretty easy -- you totally mix it with your stand mixer. I concocted a two-layer cake with pale blue frosting that ended up looking green (I feared a navy blue cake so went a little to easy on the food coloring). On top I sprinkled edible glitter. It certainly wasn't my prettiest cake -- but man oh man is it heaven to eat. Bill seemed to enjoy it as well. I may have hit on a yearly tradition ... I am sure that is all our health insurance will allow!
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