So if that super long title is any indication, I indeed busted out the big guns for this cake. While it is quite the production, it should also be noted that this cake is worth every dirty mixing bowl and spatula that will take up residence in your sink. The lucky recipient was my sweet mama, who recently celebrated a birthday, and seeing as she's the one who gave birth to me and all, she gets a pretty cake on the day she was born. It's payback time, I suppose, for all of those cakes over the years she bestowed upon me. My favourite was always chocolate cake with swirls of fluffy white icing. Tucked away in the cake layers were assorted coins, wrapped in tin foil, waiting to be pulled out by some lucky kid. If you got the quarter you were golden! And if it was your birthday and you got shut out, then there was probably some sulking, and possibly tears. Not that I know this from first hand experience or anything. Ahem. Fast forward 30 odd years and while I didn't hide any money in my mom's birthday cake, I'm certain that the love she baked with all those years ago was matched by mine on this day.
