Un Birthday

Story Time:

I was craving chocolate cake so I decided that we should celebrate my 1/2 birthday (June 22) and have chocolate cake. The 22nd was a crazy day so we decided not to do anything, and Bryan suprised me with my 1/2 birthday on Friday. 

 He wanted to make a cake for me, but he used a spring form pan instead of a cake pan (which we have).  The cake grew up the sides of the pan and then deflated in the middle.  No bueno.  So he cut off the growths and decided frosting would help.  He used a recipe call fool proof frosting.  Right....  our cocoa powder container was almost empty, so he only used about 2 Tbs instead of 1/4 cup.  (We had another container in the cupboard, but he didn't see it).  So it was a little less chocolatey than usual.  Bryan didn't realize that confectioners sugar was the same as powdered sugar (which we had), so he used granualted sugar instead.  The frosting was definitely sweet but tasted like sand.  To keep the frosting from sticking to the plastic wrap he cut the fire starters off the top of 12 matches and stuck them in the very, very dense cake (again, he didn't know we had toothpicks). 

His birthday party planning will most definitely be memorable.  It was very thoughtful, and sooo funny.  Luckily, his back up plan was chocolate ice cream.  Good call :)

I think he just needs to get a little more familiar with the contents in our kitchen!