Yoohoo! Yes, you there, hello! Can you help me? Just need a quick opinion…
So my father’s 60th birthday is coming up, and my mother and I are throwing him a party. A select gathering of his chums, about 35 people altogether.
Obviously, my mother will be making an Indian meal, and obviously it will be delicious. I, however, am in charge of dessert. Bearing in mind that people will be having their fill at the main course, I thought I’d keep it simple – the birthday cake and a fruit salad for those who don’t eat cake (I know. It amazes me too, but those people do exist. The mind boggles).
I’ve been poring over my many recipes, and have whittled the possibilities down to two – both from the delectable Magnolia Bakery Cookbook. In the left corner, we have a lemon cake, three-tiered (I’m deeply ambitious, and equally delusional), with a lemon-(or perhaps lime) curd filling and the seven-minute frosting. In the right corner, we have the old-fashioned vanilla cake, again three-tiered, with a mango or berry filling and the seven-minute frosting.
This, my little sweetlings, is where you come in. What cake do I make?
Help me.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
battle of the cakes
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3 comments:
the vanilla one with mango filling sounds interesting and yummy... but then that's probably because I've never heard of that before and it's a little different. Which one do you think would be most special/new for your dad? and when's his birthday? My mom's turning 60 this year around Thanksgiving and we hope to have all my sisters together to celebrate (the first time to have the whole family here since Monika's wedding, 5 years ago). Exciting stuff. Anyway, hope his amazing birthday celebration goes wonderfully well! :)
yum, yum, if you ask me, I like both and I will say both but that is going to make your job more difficult. You ask Rich, he will say - vanilla cake with mango filling- hands down. He had one in the Phils. and he loved it.... the lemon cake sounds light and luscious... tough choices dear...
Lovelies, thank you for weighing in on this matter. At the moment, I'm leaning heavily towards the lemon one. Which is simply perverse since everyone I've asked seems to go for the vanilla/mango. Oh well. Plenty of time for me to go change my mind...
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