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I just had a birthday...

David and the kids decided to make me a cake from SCRATCH.

I did provide the recipe, Grandma's Chocolate Cake.  

From my occasional observation because they did not want me to help, everything was going perfect and the cakes were in the oven.  David just finished making the icing and we were debating if there was enough, or did we need to double the recipe?

I stepped out of the room.

David made a phone call to Josie / Michael, which ended with the words, "I have to go, there is smoke pouring out of my oven."  

Kate came running down the hall, "Mommy!!! Mommy!!!  Come quick, the oven is on fire!"

(moment for much laughter....)

Yep, the cake pans were too small and the cake over flowed and started the oven to smoke, no fire.

(FYI, I did provide the cake pans to David, so I did feel some what responsible.)  


However, Grandma's recipe does not give any pan sizes, I did check.  I also swear, these were the pans I used the last time I made it.

So, I got out the bigger pans and went to put Stephen to bed.

David and Kate made the cakes again and this time in the right size pans.

The icing was perfect, hence our personal taste testers.  

(FYI, the pictures to follow were taken on the following night, when they iced the cake.)  

Kate approved.  

Stephen approved.  (Please look behind Stephen, at Dixie!  She is just waiting for a morsel to fall....)

The cake was REALLY good!  I wanted to cut into in Tuesday night, but we were good and waited until Wednesday.  

Grandma herself would have been impressed!  

 

Even the dogs got to eat a little bit and celebrate.