giveaway #2

before i show you the treat for today...
the winner of the CrAZy LoVe book was number 473.

Mint chocolate chip cheese cake! Sinful! Must have coffee and be enjoyed slowly!

Posted by: Audrey | April 20, 2010 at 07:23 AM

congratulations Audrey.
send me an email with your address and i will get this to you soon!

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i won KIM'S jockey shopping spree!
$100 of free underwear.
that is very exciting.  
thank you kim.  
i love today's creative blog.  
it's true.
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today's givewawy.
a blog reader sent me a link to her etsy...i'm sorry that i can't recall who sent it though.
and i knew immediately i had to have one.
because...come on! 
this was made for me.
 

a rainbow cake necklace!!
 

it is the cutest little cake!


 
look at all of her creations!
i think they are so cute.
a s'mores ring?
a sub sandwich necklace?!
i really love the lucky charm bracelet!
 

she has a cute little etsy shop.
and a blog too.
and she was kind enough to send me a second rainbow cake necklace to give to one of you.
how cool is she?!

talby thought it was THE COOLEST necklace in the world.
so if you don't think you'd wear it you can give it to your favorite little girl in your life.

do you remember a favorite birthday cake?
mine was when i was 8 or 9.
it was the shape of a roller skate and it had cake donuts as the wheels.
it rocked.
thank you mom for getting that cake.
it has always been my favorite!

leave a comment today telling me....
your most memorable birthday cake you ever had. 

Comments

[Karla]

Hands down, it was a carousel. I still remember everything about it, I loved it!

[Diana G]

My brother "baked" me an Easy Bake Oven birthday cake for my 7th birthday. He was so proud! He even stuck some candles in it!

[Lacy Brauner]

wow. om the first comment!! woohoo! hmmm...my favorit birthday cake?
my dad made me cupcakes for school one year. It was so sweet. My mom worked nights and things were rocky growin' up, so dad did it:] he didnt want to wait between batches for the cupcake pan, so.....he put liners all along a cake pan. they were flat and misshaped, but I had cupcakes for everyone for my birthday. He knew my heart wouldve been broken if i didnt have them, so he tried!

[Christy]

My 7th birthday cake was a clown cake to go along with my clown themed birthday party...I remember it because it was my last birthday before we moved back to FL after my parent's divorce and my grandmother, who is NOT a baker, baked it for me. That is one cute necklace and I have one cute little girl who would LOVE it!!

[Marley]

Very cute necklace! My favorite birthday cake was one my mom made for me when I was 7 years old. It was a Barbie cake. My mom made a normal bundt cake but put a Barbie doll in the middle and made the cake part look like it was her dress! Very cool

[Laura]

Definitely - it was the Barbie Cake! You know - the kind where the dress is the cake and the doll is at the top!!!!!

[Elizabeth McDonald]

My favorite cake was a monkey cake...my mom spent all day making it...and while she was picking up my grandmother...the dog ATE it..he was sick for a week!

[Megan]

I always just had a sheet cake with icing on it....nothing too exciting. One year though, my mom placed coins in the cake before baking. A nice surprise....so that's probably my favorite.

[Shairee]

When I turned 36 my in laws came to visit on my birthday (a 4 hr drive)! and my mother in law plopped a store brand yellow cake mix, store brand jello box, and store bought frosting on my counter. THEY WERE ALL PAST THE DATE OF SELL BY at lease 5 YEARS!!!! When I pointed them out to my husband and said please don't let her make that...he called a friend of ours & got her recipe for a white cake with raspberry frosting. THEN HE MADE IT! (I think he's cooked once in our 16 years of marriage). It was fabulous, tasty, and beautiful!

[Jill]

We rarely did cake. We usually had cream puffs! Yum!

[miss lynn]

total barbie cake.
the barbie was
stuck in the
middle and the
cake was a
beautiful gown.
i LOVED that
cake.

happy!

[cheryl @ a pretty cool life.]

Martha's showing the rainbow cake on her show today. The pic of it on facebook this morning looked exactly like that little necklace!

My fave bday cake was Rainbow Brite. I was born in the 80's baby!!!!!

[Holly]

That is just too cute! I never had a store bought cake, mine were always just ones my mom made and put swoopy swirls of frosting on them. I have made all my five kids cakes. Does that count. My favorite was a horse head and I used licorice for the reins.

[Lisa]

I don't remember any special cake, just that I always had to share one with my sister who's birthday is a few days after mine :( So this could be my "special" cake! :)

[Ana]

My most memorable birthday cake was prepared for my 8th birthday by my godmother, who was a professional baker. (I think that's the only thing she ever did for me because I just never saw the woman!). Anyway, this cake had three tiers and on top sat a doll. Actually, the upper body of the doll was embedded in the cake to give the illusion that the cake was her dress, get it? Too bad nobody took a picture (we didn't own a camera...), but it must have been memorable because I still remember that cake after 30 years!

[Jennifer Frazee-Whitcomb]

My favorite was a New Kids on the Block cake when I was 12. It had Jon's face on it!!!!!! I know I know....

My daughter would LOVE LOVE LOVE that necklace! We made your rainbow cake for her birthday last year and she wants the same this year! Yahoo!

Jennifer

[Ayelet]

my mom worked as a pastry chef for most of my childhood and for my 16th birthday she made me something that looked like it was out of a wedding magazine! it was white chocolate with strawberry swiss meringue filling and white chocolate frosting. sugar and gum paste flowers all over it...it was amazing! and it tasted sooo good too! it was perfect for the girly sweet 16 party I had :)

[Mother Runner]

My favorite was my grandpa's 60th birthday cake that was just a huge pair of naked BOOBS!

I know it wasn't my cake - but by far the most memorable.
Plus I like to type the word 'BOOBS'.

If you randomly draw my number - feel free to choose someone else instead.
BOOBS.

[Brittney]

My most memorable was not necessarily the best!

The best was the grasshopper (choc cake, mint buttercream) I had from a new local bakery last year.

But the most memorable was when I was about 12 and my mom surprised me with one of those photo cakes with a picture of my little brother and me on it. I was so mortified that he was on there, but I don't think I ever told my mom that! As long as it tasted good it wasn't soo bad!

[Jessie Miller Sterling]

I don't remember one in particular, but I do remember going to Dairy Queen to pick out the ice cream cake I wanted. I always picked those. And I still LOVE them!

[Katie]

A multi-tiered confetti cake!

[amanda fuentes]

Love the necklace, so original!

The only cake that stands out in my mind was the Angel Food topped with fresh strawberries. I am not a fan of frosting or icing so Angel Food was always my favorite.

[angela]

I had a Brown Stone Front Cake every year on my birthday....with the caramel icing. Oh MY!!!

[Tammy]

A cake from Baskin Robbins- shaped like Snoopy. It was supposed to have cake and ice cream. They did all chocolate fudge ice cream for the entire thing. Every girl at the party got sick from it and we had to take turns in the bathroom. I must have been 10 or 11.

[ckiser@chem-castltd.com]

never had a cake, never had a birthday party; but if I would have, i would have wanted it to be a cake just like the necklace. that would have been amazing. i must do that for my daughter. what an awesome memory for her.

[dori]

for my 12th birthday, i was supposed to get a "new kids on the block" cake. but my dad didnt look at it before leaving the bakery, brought it home, and opened it up in front of all my friends (boys too...my first boy-girl party!) and it said "happy birthday raymond" not dori! everyone had a good laugh before my dad got back in the car and drive it straight back to the bakery.

you said memorable, not favorite!

[Megan]

We always had ice cream cakes. I LOVE THEM to this day.

[Mary]

All we could afford growing up was the candy toppings that went on top of cakes. They still make them and they're still just as nasty tasting today as they were then. But as a child from a home that only got desserts on special occassions, those candy treats were heavenly. So my only memory of birthday cakes was that when it was My birthday, I got to choose with candy piece i wanted to eat. Then all the others had to be shared with sisters and friends.

[Kristen]

My most memorable birthday cake was the first one my MIL made for me. Chocolate with vanilla frosting...my favorite, and so thoughtful of her :)

[Dana Banana]

Didn't do a lot of cakes for my Birthday. Not that I didn't have a cake, just nothing special. And my birthday is over Christmas, so always had lots of other treats. Usually request an Angel Food cake with strawberries.

[Lisa]

I don't know if this cake was the most memorable or just the only one that I remember :)
On my 8th birthday, which occurred on August 8th, and was my lucky birthday, I had a strawberry cake with strawberry icing that had little, dark pink flecks in it. I can almost
still taste it.

[kbonikowsky]

Five-years-old birthday was one of those Barbie cakes with the doll sticking out of the top of the hoop skirt that was the cake. To this day, I love those cakes!! What an adorable giveaway, thanks!

[Ariel]

Once I was deemed "old enough" (my sweet 16) I received a Mocha Cake (only reserved for adults!) from the BEST bakery in town, The Village Baking Company! I felt like such a grown-up, such a woman eating my Mocha cake and knowing I would soon be going out for a drive with my Mom!

[megan]

the most memorable birthday cake i have ever had was THIS year...we spent my birthday in Buenos Aires. The cake was a brownie with a layer of dulce de leche and then a meringue topping. it was NOTHING in have ever had before....and probably will never have it again.

[Anna Marie]

It was a train with a load of sugar gum drops as cargo. It was so detailed! My great aunt made it.

How fun would her necklaces and earrings be to wear if you owned a little bakery?!? So stinkin' cute!

[Jen]

My most memorable birthday cake was probably the Strawberry Shortcake one my mom made for my 6th birthday. She painstakingly used a star tip to dot on every inch of frosting. It was awesome.

[Sheila]

A three tiered white cake with coconut flavored icing and tons of coconut! Probably sounds gross to some, either you are a coconut lover or you are not. I definitely am!

[Sue K.]

OK so my mom is very granola, you know...natural and organic and stuff (she was way way way ahead of her time). So my birthday cakes were usually like a honey cake or banana bread type things. (if she was feeling extra sinful she would sprinkle **some** powdered sugar on it). So for my 10th birthday (the double digit one) I BEGGED her for a real birthday cake with frosting on it and please please please make it "normal". Guess what...she did! She made me a chocolate (not carob) cake and put vanilla frosting on it and around the side edges she put a ring of those orange slices that are gumdropish. It was so beautiful to me!

[Joni Lane]

the best birthday cake was for my 16th surprise birthday party. my best friend made me a giant chocolate chip cookie and decorated it as a pizza. it was amazing...and DELICIOUS!

[Stephanie]

A Barbie cake! Hands down, it was the best! A cake that somehow my mom got to be really tall and come down, like a barbie's big fluffy dress, and then stuck a barbie in the middle of it... it was sooooo COOL!

[Tracy]

I always had a professional cake since my aunt made cakes...they were all wondeful and very pretty. But, one that sticks out was one my mom actually made for my friend party and it was a popcorn cake. It was so good!!! Now I make it for my kids...not for their birthdays but just because....and they love it!!!

[kathryn]

the kiddos i am a nanny for (and their mom) made me a 3D teddy bear cake a couple years ago. it was so cute and they were so very proud to show it to me. :)

i LOVE the rainbow cake! i found your post about it way back in august and saved it for this st. patrick's day to make with the kids. i iced it before they could see the inside and they decorated it. turned out so cute! and there were many amazed exclamations when we cut into it! :) thanks for the idea!

(the cake)
http://1heartbeatatatime365in2010.blogspot.com/2010/03/31710-happy-cake.html
(my kids with the cake)
http://1heartbeatatatime365in2010.blogspot.com/2010/03/31810-my-little-leprechauns.html

[Mindy Harris]

my mom always let us request the kind of birthday cake we wanted. i chose chocolate pudding poke cake several years in a row. the cold pudding...yum!

[Marisol Avila]

Such adorable stuff.
My favorite cake was my Strawberry Shortcake Cake. :)

[Jennifer]

My dad used to be a cake decorator and one year he made me an awesome barbie cake, I was really young okay? lol Hopefully one day he'll be able to make me my wedding cake.

[Donna]

I have no idea how old I was, but my mom made me a clown cake with the clown head made out of plasic on a stick that you stuck in the cake and then the body was made out of frosting.

[crush.]

mine wasn't birthday cake but a first communion one - three tiers covered in pink and white frosting roses - I felt like a princess. :)

[Kendra]

Ha! I was really into collecting trolls when I was probably 6 or 7 years old. So my mom made me a troll cake. But of course they were the little cute ones. With fun hair. Not scary=)

[Molly]

For my 12th birthday my mom made me this HUGE alligator cake. It was 3 feet long! It had this amazing bright green icing, red string licorice for the lips, candy corn for the teeth and different color and sizes of gummy candy for the eyes and toes. It was amazing! I LOVE to bake so many years later I decided I would try to make it. It took 4 hours to make and decorate this cake. I was so thankful that my mom took that much time to make me a cake so amazing!

[Staci]

Sadly, I don't remember a favorite cake :( I know, now I'm sad! But I would've loved one of those Barbie ones ;) I can remember getting a Lee Majors 10 million dollar (or however many dollar he was) Man Barbie doll!! He was soooo cool! It's all I wanted...maybe they got that instead of the cake? Oh well! Thanks again for the giveaway!

[Chris]

Hummingbird cake - so delicious.

[Tiffany]

Good Morning! My fifth birthday cake was a wonder woman cake. It was so great and looked even better because I was wearing wonder woman underoos (to match the cake) HA!

[amy jupin]

shut up! you have your own jewelry line now??!!

this is so lame. my best birthday cake was a marble cake when i was maybe 8 or 9. i had never seen anyone make a cake like that before and i loved chocolate & vanilla swirl so it was perfect. i know, i'm so easily pleased.

[Jami]

For me every cake growing up was memorable! My Mom made all of my cakes and they were awesome, Ernie and Bert, Tweety bird, a cabage patch doll and Strawberry short cake to name a few. But the best cake of all was My ALF cake. You know the old TV show about the furry alien named Alf who comes to live with a family and was always trying to eat thier cat? Well my Mom hand made the cake like usual (which makes it 10 times more special) and I had an Alf party to match :) Oh and on the cake my Mom wrote "Yo, Willie it's Jami Sweeney's 8th birthday!" That was for sure my most memorable cake :)

[Blanca]

I wish I had one. Don't ever remember ever having a cake for my birthday. Maybe that is why I make sure my kids never go without a cake on their birthdays. I take that back my niece bought me a mini cake about 2 or 3 years ago for my birthday.

[Tara]

instead of making a "themed" cake, my mom has always made us our favorite cake..she still does this and I'm turning 37 in June!

Mine is a homemade strawberry cake with fresh, homemade strawberry cream cheese icing. yummy!!!

[Rebecca]

that reminds me of the plastic charm bracelets and necklaces my sister and i used to wear and collect...how i wish i still had those for my little girl...favorite cake memory is actually for my son's 5th birthday...it was a red and white circus tent and weighed so much that i could barely carry it in the house!! good times!!

[Bec]

I sent you the link because I found her etsy shop through epicute and it screamed Meg.

My favorite bday cake is Black Magic cake which I make my mom make every year. Delicious.

[Beth K.]

My mom made all of my cakes until high school. Being an October birthday I had a lot of Halloween theme cakes - witches, etc. I had a pac man cake, Care Bear cake, a little house cake (my made this three times for us girls - crazy!), but I would have to say my favorite was a double layer cake with the best frosting on it. It had Charms suckers around it with their sticks wrapped in green paper and mint leaves at the bottom so it looked like flowers all around the cake.

[Lee Ann]

It's a toss up. When I was little my mom made a cute Easter bunny. But this year my hubby made me a chocolate (gluten free) cake all my himself! He'd never even made a cake.

That necklace is soooooo cute!

[`Kelly]

I love that necklace! I've made that cake so many times for different parties! I just made it two weekends ago for my niece's Over The Rainbow party!
My favorite cake...I don't remember any specifically. I do remember my sister getting one that looked like a cheeseburger. It was very cool!

[Sophie]

My most memorable birthday cake was probably for my 7th birthday. There was this cake that I'd always see in the supermarket. It had pink icing and was covered in necklaces, rings and pretty little jewels for all the people that ate it. It was little girl's princess cake. I wanted it so badly. But when my birthday rolled around, my parents said they couldn't afford it because it was so expensive, so my dad, sweet as he is, made me one almost exactly the same.
I'll never forget it. Mine wasn't just almost the same.
It was better (:

[Lori]

My Gram baked me a train birthday cake for my third birthday. She had baked one for my dad too when he was little. I just found the pics the other day when I was going through some of his old pictures.

[Terri A.]

My pink panther cake for my 6th birthday.

[emily]

my 4th birthday . . . a strawberry shortcake cake!!!

[Kate]

my sweet mom used to make me these ice cream cone cupcakes (the cupcake was inside the ice cream cone). They were yummy and SO cute!

[amy d]

ha ha ha...my favorite birthday cake was also a roller skate, with the cake donuts as wheels!!! i begged for that cake because cake donuts were (are) my favorite. mine was the "jogger" type roller skate...blue and yellow. next in line would have to be the bert & ernie cake though, because my mom cursed the whole way through it :)

[Amy Harle]

My favorite was my first birthday cake - the Barbie cake - doll stuck in the middle of a cake dress :) I made one for my 2nd dd's first birthday, too :)

[Amanda C.]

My favorite birthday cake was when I was turning 14, I believe. It was in the heat of my NSYNC love and my mom got a cake that had their faces on it! You know, when photos are superimposed on cakes? That's what it was. I remember asking for Justin's face. Best cake ever. :)

[Meredith]

My favorite birthday cake made for me was a three tiered cake my mom made me when I was probably 10 or 11. I was not a girly-girl but loved the idea of a fancy cake for my birthday. My favorite birthday cake I've made was your rainbow cake for my son's first birthday last summer!

[Tracy]

Are you going to share the recipe for the mint chocolate chip cheesecake????
My mom always made me cakes with money baked inside. I don't think parents were as aware of choking hazzards as we are today :). She cleaned it at my dad's dental office and mixed it into the batter. I miss that!

[Shawna]

Barbie Cake, I think I had it several times while in elementary school I liked it so much.

[Christy]

My favorite b-day was #30. My DH & my sister threw my a surprise party, well they tried. :) I found out about it, but it was still a blast. Lots of friends celebrating at a local pub & I didn't find out till a week later I was pregnant with my son, after many years of waiting. Best b-day EVER!

[Kristi]

My most memorable birthday cake of mine was my strawberry shortcake cake...but my most memorable cake of my daughters was the rainbow cake i made her for her fifth birthday! It looks just like the necklace...with a little extra flowers on top! It was her fancy nancy cake!

[katie]

When I was 6, I had an Angel Food cake with blueberries in it with blue icing. I always had angel food cake and blueberries were my favorite and, well, the icing HAD to be blue to match. There was a lot of blue and everyone found themselves dyed blue after eating the cake. It was hilarious and wonderful as a 6 year old. That has always been my favorite birthday cake.

[Laura Phelps]

As a cake decorator, is might be hard to believe but I DON'T HAVE A MEMORABLE CAKE!!! EVER. Is that sad???? My sister made me a winnie the pooh cake...and I remember it only because it is the only picture I have of myself with a cake. Maybe this Saturday..my 40th birthday...someone will finally get me a cake, because I refuse to make my own!!!!!!! (and if I could choose...either the triple berry cake from Sweet Lady Jane, or the vanilla cake with pink frosting from SUsie cakes...)

fyi...making a rainbow SHEETcake today...for a candyland party...should be interesting!)

[BriBedell]

It was my seventh birthday (in April usually around Easter) and my mom made me two Bunny Rabbit Cakes! They were awesome they had licorice whiskers and jelly bean eyes! My birthday party was at a roller staking rink! All my little friends thought my mom was the coolest..well she still is :) LOL

[Nathalie]

All mine were special becaues they were homemade by my mom... never store bought...

[Ruth H.]

THAT is an awesome necklace. So perfect for you!

My most memorable birthday cake wasn't a cake. It was a pie. My mom bakes the best pies, so sometimes we requested pies for our birthdays. My husband was aware of this quirky tradition. Before my 30th birthday, he had a friend who baked teach him how to make pie. He made 6 pies, and threw a big surprise party for me with all of our friends. It was so fun to eat the yummy peach pie my husband made for me!

[Regina]

My 10th birthday...it was the only party I ever had as a kid...the cake had clowns on it...remember those clowns with a body made of piped frosting and a clown head pick? I honestly think I still have those clown picks! Thanks for hosting such awesome give-aways!

[Tiffany]

The cake I remember most was for my 10th birthday. It had elephants on it and said Happy Double Digit Day!
I was so proud to finally be in the double digits.

[mrjasperson]

My grandma made me a doll cake where the skirt of the doll was the cake and then the barbie was stuck in it...so cute and I still remember it and exactly where I was in her kitchen when I saw it for the first time. Such a fun memory...

[Molly Pearce]

When I was little my daddy would take me to pick out my cake each year! One year he surprised me with a mermaid cake! The icing was blue and green to look like the sea and it had little mermaids all over it. After my party was over I took all the mermaids out and washed them to play with them. Sadly they got lost when my daddy moved about 10 years ago. But I still remember his face when he brought me the cake with candles and saw how excited I was. Wish I was still 10 again with no cares in the world!
~Molly P

[Kristina]

The cake I remember the most was an icecream cake I had at my slumber party when I was 11. It was the first time I ever had icecream in a cake....exciting stuff =)

[Laura Dyson]

My favorite birthday cake is a cake that I didn't like as a little girl. I come from a big family, so when my birthday rolled around my mom got me a cake that she thought I really liked. I was 13 and my mom bought me a carrot cake! You know 13 year old girls -- at the time I was so disppointed. But now I look back on it and laugh everytime. I will never forget that day and now I am a mother and completely understand how you can make mistakes :-) And with age I have grown to LOVE carrot cake.

[chasity]

my favorite cake was either snow white and the seven dwarfs or a crocodile cake....both made by my dear mom.
she could make the ordinary days special and the special days spectacular!

[Milena]

My most memorable birthday cake was for my 7th birthday. My mum made a cake looking like a house. It was hollow in the middle (like those one makes for Christmas). It was covered with cream and enormous amounts of small chocolates, candy, gummy bears and so on. Inside (after all the kids stripped the house totally - I have a picture where all off us have cream up to our elbows) there was a chocolate cake!!! Amazing! And so much fun!

[Amanda]

I don't know if I could pick just one favorite birthday cake. Every year my mom would make me a homemade cake (because store bought ones are just lame) in any shape that I wanted and each and every year I would think of more outlandish things to try and stump her. The castle cake she made me for my 16th was pretty amazing, complete with turrets, flags, and pink icing :)

[sara jane]

i must say. I LOVE CAKE. so pretty much every birthday and every reason for cake is my favorite :)

[pam]

When I was little my grandfather who I only knew for 8 years baked my birthday cake...it had the most peculiar aqua (kind of) frosting...turned out it was made from from pancakes, layered with frosting and then FROZEN!!!! I still remember that and I don't have many memories from child hood.

[Kara]

Ugh, I actually can't remember any birthday cakes - but mom had 5 kids so I'll cut her some slack!!!! Love the necklace - will be making the cake with my 3 year old :)

[Lisa]

My most memorable cake had to be my Sweet 16 cake. My mom had a red Camaro with a t-top at the time which I was dying to drive as a newly licensed 16 year old. The cake was that of a brunette-headed Barbie baked into a red Camaro cake.

Love it to this day! ;-)

[Natalie]

We never had fancy cakes for our birthdays. Just sheet cakes but we always got to pick the flavor. I'll never forget my last birthday though because even though I'm 25, my mom made me a red velvet cake just like I wanted and then as she was eating hers, dropped it on my white carpet. That stain will never let me forget!

[Alice]

my 9th birthday cake. a bunny cake.a huge cake. my mom made it for me. How awesome is that.

[lisa]

Not a cake. Last year my boyfriend made me an apple pie. I will never forget the shock and joy I felt when I opened the door after work to see him with an apron on, rolling out dough!

[amy s]

my mom rocked at making birthday cakes... totally professional... and my favorite cake was ANIMAL from the muppet show... i so dig that guy.

[Cara Kapp]

Can't really remember the best one - but the one that still stuck in my head is the plastic doll in the middle of the cake full of pink icing :-) with those silver balls all over and "yellow" hair. My mom wasn't really a "Baker"!!

[adrianne]

My sister's friend made me an R2D2 cake. He used an R2D2 cake pan, but the piping on it was amazing. (And the cake was strawberry - yum.) And I may or may not have been turning 24 at the time.

(But I'd really like the 'teen wolf' cupcake cake one year - it makes me laugh...even if it wasn't intended to be funny (or to be teen wolf).
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/09/cupcake-cakes-always-wrecktastic-always.html)

[Sarah@Clover Lane]

Geez oh Petes! My mom just made a cake! Just a cake! Sometimes she put jelly beans in the frosting if she had some laying around. Sometimes she just let us pick the color of the frosting. Sometimes she said, "Would you like angel food cake, or just plain cake?" Sometimes she didn't even ask! No fancy stuff...we had very simple birthdays growing up...and they were the BEST ever. I love her for giving me the LOVE of simple things. Like just plain CAKE!

[Julie]

My grandmother always made my birthday cake, yellow cake with lemon frosting still my absolutely favorite!!