Woot! February has definitely brought a lot of Blazing Birthdays, hasn’t it? I’ll wind it up today 
It’s cake day for me!! That’s my new term for birthdays, since I’d rather not get another year older 
But I do love celebrations, and am definitely not willing to give up pressies, so I figure cake day covers all the bases.
And since it’s now officially cake day in my little world, let’s talk cake! I love cake. Chocolate is my hands down favorite, but I’ve been known to drool over a nummy carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Moistness is key to deliciousness in my cake book. 
My love affair with cake even delved into decorating. Way back when, right after my youngest daughter was born, I took decorating classes. I decorated Blues Clues cakes. I decorated Scooby Doo cakes. I decorated teddy bear cakes (I think there’s a theme here). I even made a dude-in-a-recliner-with-the-TV-remote cake for Father’s Day one year. The best was the monster head on a platter cake
my brother and I made for my nephews’ birthday (sculpting isn’t my forte, so bro stepped in. I rocked the little carrots and tomatoes though!).
I was a decorating fool, right up until I started writing, when I found my ultimate (and much less fattening) source of creative outlet. Now I only haul out the decorating tips for the kids birthdays and the occasional party. Which means for cake day, someone else is has to be in baking mode. Which is 
why I taught my oldest daughter how to make my absolute favorite cake a few years back – German Chocolate with coconut pecan frosting (say it with me, Yummmmmmmy).
I mean, a girls gotta make sure she’s got her cake love covered, right? So how about you? Are you a cake fan? What’s your absolute favorite cake? Is it a special occasion thing, or do you get to enjoy it often? And ya know, I’m always open to yummy cake recipes if you want to share any 
(In the interest of full disclosure: the only cake I made/decorated on this page is the head on a platter. But they all look great, don’t they?)
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Hi, Tawny! Great Cakes! My favorite cakes were the German Chocolate Cakes my grandmother used to make for me! Here is a wonderful recipe that has become one of my favorites:
Chocolate Gingerbread Squares
4 Tbsp butter (1/2 stick), melted
1/4 Cup unsweetened cocoa powder
3/4 Cup all-purpose flour
1 Tsp ground ginger
1 Tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 Tsp baking soda
1/8 Tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 Cup packed dark-brown sugar
1/4 Cup molasses
1 large egg
1/2 Cup sour cream
1 Tsp vanilla extract
1/2 Cup semisweet chocolate chips
confectioner’s sugar for dusting
Butter and lightly flour an 8-inch square baking pan. In a medium bowl, whisk together cocoa, flour, spices and baking soda. In a large bowl, whisk together butter, brown sugar, molasses, egg, and sour cream until smooth. Add flour mixture; stir just until moistened (do not overmix). Stir in vanilla extract and chocolate chips. Transfer batter to prepared pan; smooth top. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until lightly firm to touch. When cool, sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar. Cut into 16 squares. Store in airtight container.
Oooooh, YUM!!! this looks delicious, Virginia
I can’t wait to try it!!!
My absolute favorite cake is an Oatmeal cake and before anybody asks “Why in the world would you want to put oatmeal in a cake?”, it tastes like a spice cake sort of and is really moist. When I make them they are gone in like two days.
Here is the recipe:
Oatmeal Cake
1 cup oats
1 stick Butter
1 1/2 cups boiling water
1 cup brown suger
1 cup white sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp baking soda
2 eggs
Topping
6 Tbls butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup condensed milk
1 can coconut
2 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup chopped nuts (I like pecans)
Mix oatmeal, butter and boiling water and let stand 20 minutes. Add 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup white sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and flour together and add to mixture. Finally add the eggs and mix well. Bake in a greased and floured 9 x 13 baking dish at 350 for 30 – 35 minutes.
mix filling ingreadents and spread over warm cake and place the cake back in the oven under the broiler until brown. But be careful the topping can burn easily.
My hubby asks for this cake every year for his birthday. He used to ask for carrot cake but once I made this one there was no looking back. AND yes, I eat cake off and on all year round. Sometimes more than others.
BTW… I forgot to mention HAPPY CAKE DAY Tawny
I hope you have a great day! 
Thanks so much, Patsy
It’s been a great day so far!!
Ooooh, Patsy! I’m a huge fan of oatmeal and this looks wonderful. The family loves a good spice cake, too. Thanks!
Happy Happy cake day!
My fav cake… well I have three… Chocolate mousse cake, Harvey Walbanger cake, & white cake with chocolate pudding layer! YUMMY! Enjoy your cake day!!! 
Oh, Colleen, those all sound amazing
And as much as anything named chocolate mousse makes my mouth water, I’d love to taste the white cake with chocolate pudding layer- how decadent 
Thank you, too
LOL on the head cake!
I’m known for my sliding cakes. One was captured on video as it slid apart. Sigh. The boys started asking for “cookie” cakes, aka giant cookies baked in a pizza pan. I just made a birthday pie for hubby.
ROFL Heather… gotta love sliding cakes!! That means they have great filling, right?
I love cookie cakes!
Happy CAKE day Tawny!!!
In all honesty, I love all kinds of cake. It is very hard to choose a favorite, but there is a range of course. If I was to dig down deep inside, and choose, I would say that I love…drum roll please….GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE and RED VELVET CAKE! I know, it was so hard to choose between these two. GCC has everything I love in, and RVC has that moistness factor that is so critical to great cakes.
I hope that you have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious day celebrating your CAKE day!
Peace and love,
Paula R.
Mmmmmm, Paula
I don’t think I’ve had superb Red Velvet cake before – the ones I had were okay, but not super moist. I’ll have to keep looking 
Of course, its going to be hard to find one that beats the GCC deliciousness 
Thanks, tons! I’m having a lovely day and there is this huge, yummy looking cake waiting for me to cut into. Its killing me to wait LOL.
Tawny, a friend of mine bakes and I get the recipe for you. She is from Trinidad and she owns a bakery with her husband. Trust me…it is moist. I will get the recipe for you okay. Now, go take a bite out of that cake, so you can tell us how it tastes…LOL!!!
Peace and love,
Paula R.
The cake was AWESOME, Paula
So light and fluffy – I think the secret was the chocolate whipped cream frosting between the cake and the coconut pecan layer. Oh man, delish!
and I would LOOOOOVE the recipe
Thanks!!!
Okay, I will get it for you. Your cake sounds delish, and you have coconut pecan layer. MMMMM!!! My mouth is watering, seriously. I am salivating here. I am glad. It was fun hanging out with you on your Cake Day. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Peace and love,
Paula R.
WOW! Just another creative side to you Tawny. Is there anything you can’t do??
Since I don’t do chocolate, my favorite cake is red velvet with cream cheese frosting. YUM YUM YUM!!!!
LOL Buffie – There are oh so many things I can’t do. The list is long, but happily I am knocking a few things off it each year
It sounds like I’m definitely going to have to find me some really good red velvet cake – it must be delish!!!
Hey Tawny,
Happy Birthday!!!!
I’m afraid I can’t contribute to the cake conversation – I don’t like it. Just call me weird…
I hope you have a great day!
Brenda
Hi Tawny! Well since I have gotten in here late today I hope you have had a wonderful cake day!!
I also like to make cakes. Some of the cakes I have done are; a princess castle, mickey mouse, snow white, a shirt and tie. a turkey wearing a football jersey holding a football, a McDonalds happy Meal box,a checker board game, an IPod, a 2 1/2 foot long Lego indiana Jones and some others. Every time I make one I try to do it bigger and better then the last one. Its fun! Although for a while there my kids were sick of cake, lol! Well I hope you have had a wonderful day. Have a great night!!
Oh wow, Alina
You’ve made some awesome cakes. I love the idea of an iPod cake *g* How fun. I hear you on the sick of cake, thing, It took me years before I wanted to taste buttercream again LOL.
I did have a great day, thanks. It was filled with family and laughter and lots and lots of great cake
Have a great cake day, Tawny!! My fave cake is Sprite Cake with Cream Cheese frosting…but I can’t give up our secret family recipe!!
Here is a link to my new fave cupcake, though. Brown Sugar Poundcake with Brown Butter Glaze from Martha Stewart!
http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/brown-sugar-pound-cupcakes-with-brown-butter-glaze
Hey, someone was telling me about a soda cake combo today, Laura
I’ll have to admit, it sounded a little odd *g* But I’m a fan of anything in cream cheese frosting, so I’d give it a try.
and OMG WOW delish on the cupcakes! So nummy looking. Rich but not too sweet??? Are they fab? I’ll have to try them out at Easter and see
Thank you. 
My specialty is cookie cakes, that’s usually what my family asks for on birthdays. My brother loves them so I make sure I always bake him one for his birthday. I’m not a huge cake fan, but absolute favorite cake is ice cream cake. My family gets me one for my birthday. Last year I had one that looked like a baseball. One cake I can’t eat is chocolate, just don’t care for the taste.
That head cake is awesome! I wish I talented like that.
Hey Nicole
Love the idea of a baseball shaped ice-cream cake. How fun!!! My husband’s absolute fave is ice cream cake. We have it every year for his birthday. One year, they had a dragon ice cream cake made for me (It was so cute!), even. I’m not a major ice cream fan, but that one was worth having 
Cookie cakes are always great
A belated happy birthday, Tawny!! Hope you celebrated with your dream cake!
And wow, you’re definitely a woman of many talents!! Yay!
Fedora
Hi!! Thank you -the cake was amazing! Soooooo creamy and moist, very delish and I’m sure very fattening. I had my one piece, and the rest is now GONE. I’d saved a piece for my husband, but sweetie that he is, he made sure to eat it before I got up this morning LOL.