Vincent turned three on Saturday, so I baked him a cake. From scratch. You’ll note I have not posted a picture of said cake. Oh, it tasted quite wonderful, actually, chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, and Vincent adored it. Which was a big relief, because it looked like crap. I wish I was joking.
Because I find it mildly embarrassing how truly awful that cake looked, and because such things feel like a challenge from the universe (“En garde!”), I have resolved to bake another cake today. My sister, whose birthday was also this weekend, is arriving with my mum for a visit some time this morning, so another birthday cake seems in order.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that the first cake is completely gone.
Marie Gauthier 
3 responses to “Milestones.”
Happy birthday Vincent!!!!!
xoxo
Well happy days to the young guy! And have fun with that cake. For a very long time, I made “brownie towers” for birthdays — I’d bake a pan of brownies, cut them up into what were, more or less, squares and then I’d pile them up on a cake plate and stick candles in the “cake.” They were fun, because no one could ever be certain the whole thing wouldn’t just collapse!
Merci, Marianne!
Lily, what a great idea! — though I must confess that my brownies, while they look better than my cake, taste worse…