While maxing-realaxing all cool I realized that we still needed to make a birthday cake! My family has always taken the term "birthday cake" pretty flexibly as we never make cake otherwise and it goes largely uneaten every time. My dad opts for spice cake, and since CJ and I are summer birthdays we usually go the route of angel food cake and smother it in strawberries and ice cream. Sometimes we make brownies because we actually eat them. I think I might even have had pie on one delicious occasion. In any case, I started surfing through my "cookbook" which is an old binder jammed with print-outs and pages torn from magazines. I found a contender- chocolate cake with a whipped cream frosting from a Penzey's catalog- but I also came across beer bread which we got much more excited about.
We figured you bake it and can put a candle in it, so why not? We've even talked about how if we got married we could have a "cake" that was just layers of different breads and cheeses, so it's really just putting ideals into practice.
