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Mama's Birthday Cake
I spent yesterday evening making this. It’s two layers of yellow cake, with a white chocolate mousse and sliced strawberry filling. Then topped with buttercream frosting and more strawberries (which were incredibly good for being out of season and ass out expensive).
The buttercream is 2 to 1 butter to shortening for better mouth feel than 100% shortening frosting.
I actually spent most of the Thankgiving holiday baking something. Wednesday evening it was german chocolate cake for the dessert at my aunt’s house, Friday evening, I decided to make some dinner rolls to go with our leftovers, that somehow got burned. . .so Saturday it was back in the kitchen to make rolls again, this time from the challah dough. I made one braided loaf and the remaining dough I shaped into double knot rolls, no pictures, sorry. (bad lex!) Then I also made peanut butter cookies. And of course, on Sunday I made the pictured cake.
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artjax
Yum.
lex
i find commercial yellow cakes taste better than those from scratch.
jax
One day in the supermarket, S asked if we could make brownies. I started putting raw ingreedients into our cart, and she went straight for the box.
Having never had boxed baked goods till I was at least 25….I much prefer homeade goods.
lex
i’ve made yellow butter cake from scratch before and i like the boxed better. :P
it took the folks at my mom’s office all of 15 minutes to make the entire thing disappear, but then again, they’re gov’t employees. . .
now, the german chocolate cake, that i made from scratch, and it’s gooood.