Happy Birthday!
Today, we celebrated my step-mother's birthday. She is a gourmet cook and so we wanted to treat her to something extra lovely for her birthday. Here is her birthday cake, straight out of Bon Appetit (or not?). It is called Kitty Litter Cake. You could call it something more appetizing, but Kitty Litter Cake by any other name is still...well...delicious! Mmmm. Let me know if you'd like the recipe. ;-)
And what do you get for the woman who has "everything?" Well, here is what we made for her...a river...of glass. "We" is a little generous. Mostly "we" includes Dad, the architect, artist, and designer on the project, also the primary source of manual labor. The "kids" mostly just whined and sweated a lot and chipped in some dough. Dad had to finish the project. He is an awesome Dad!!
posted by Gwynne @ 5:15 PM
12 Comments:
What does Kitty Litter cake consist of?
Is the river of glass big, smooth chunks, or sharp shards? I just know if I had something like that in my yard, I'd be in bloody ribbons all the time.
Rach, the cake is crumbled white cake, chocolate cake and cookie crumbs with some green food coloring mixed in, vanilla pudding to bind it all together, and melted tootsie rolls for special effect. ;-)
Foo, it's neither really...more shard-like than I expected but not very sharp. I don't think you'd want to walk bare foot on it. It also gets very hot! The burn factor might be more of an issue than the sharpness factor, for their animals' sake.
Oooh - pretty! (Not the cake, the glass river. The cake looks fun though :) ) I really like the bowl next to the "river" too - what a fun present!
I'm guessing your step-mom has a good sense of humor! (Re: the cake) Still it sounds yummy, especially because chocolate is involved.
Gwen
Fortunately, yes, she had her best sense of humor turned on yesterday. It could have been a real disaster otherwise!
Thanks for dropping in, Gwen. :-)
It takes something like chocolate to get me to delurk LOL!
I'd love to have the recipe to share with my Siamese Cat club. They would think it was hilarious.
Gwen
Hey, whatever it takes. ;-) I can't believe this is my first post about chocolate. I need to work on my content. ;-)
I've added a link in the post directly to the recipe. It really is tasty!
River of glass looks awesome! The kitty litter cake though, hmm... :)
ok, that is kind of creepy. i dont know if i could eat that unless i was blind
Yeah, we all had to close our eyes to eat it. ;-)
The river is very pretty...would never work at our house. All of those pretty rocks would wind up inside my house in my boys' rock collections!
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