cake

Before I get into cake, the food which is what this post is about, I just have to mention that if you make a Cake, the band Pandora station you will not regret it. So good. Especially if you like randomly hearing Third Eye Blind and singing along to it.

Now that that's out of the way. Cake! The food! My boyfriend's birthday was this past weekend on Cinco de Mayo and I decided to make a cake. I had seen this Stella McCartney inspired one online a whole bunch and wanted to try it out myself. Well, sort of. Mine was much less perfect/fancy looking and I knew that it would be from the start since I didn't wanna make such a big ass cake or buy that many different kindsa fruit.

(Tangent: I know that if you're reading this blog you probably totally accept the fact that a cake can be inspired by a designer's collection and probably think it's awesome, but when I wrote that sentence above, I couldn't help but step back and think how utterly ridiculous 'Stella McCartney inspired cake' sounds.)

If anyone doubted how cool a Stella McCartney cake could look. Here is the one that's been all over teh interwebz:

And here's the one I made:

I think it's pretty cute myself. I used Ina Garten's recipe for lemon cake. I halfed the recipe to make just one loaf cake and I didn't use her glaze or frosting that's included in the recipe, and instead make a cream cheese frosting with some lemon juice squeezed in. Then I topped it all (sort of) symmetical-like with limes, lemons, and mint. It was really good! I definitely recommend this recipe. The only problem was that I now have a buncha buttermilk left over that I'll probably never use.

Ps. Can we talk about how awesome it is that blogspot now lets you paste in pictures and they're BIG! I guess I was never that into my blog looking good that I wanted to figure out how to have big pictures, so now that it's easy, that's really great!