Where does the time go? One day, I was stitching up Christmas ornaments, and now, poof! Finals, summer birthdays, that feeling of irritation that occurs when you upgrade your operating system only to find out that none of your (admittedly embarrassingly rudimentary) Windows XP software will run on Windows 8.1….
But I digress.
My dad celebrated a birthday a few weeks back, and in keeping with my Birthday Cake Rule*, I knew I had to come up with something good. I had seen this cake on the Brown Eyed Baker some time ago and had been wanting to try it for a while. Here’s my take:
Since my dad is just a wee bit (ha!) older than the BEB’s birthday boy, I passed on the rainbow cake in favour of something just a little more adult.
This is my modification of the basic chocolate cupcake recipe from…wait for it…Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. It’s rich and moist without being too sweet, nice and light, and goes down easy. Absolutely worth skipping a half-day of classes to make!
I also took a break from needling away at the rather large needlepoint project that’s been occupying my leisure time to stitch him a card. I saw the pattern in an issue of The World of Cross Stitching, and he rather reminded me of my parents’ cat.
*The Birthday Cake Rule, for the uninitiated: If you really love someone, you’ll make them a birthday cake, or pie, or cookies, or other dessert of choice, from scratch. None of this store-bakery sheet-cake stuff.
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