CAKE!

Decided to try and bake a cake, from scratch, for Chris' birthday. This is my first attempt at baking a cake that didn't come from a box. I went with Martha's Versatile Vanilla Cake (http://www.marthastewart.com/315436/versatile-vanilla-cake)with a layer \
of raspberry jam in the middle instead of more frosting.
Making a cake is much easier than they have led us to believe. The frosting was another matter-don't try this,http://www.marthastewart.com/260911/whipped-frosting, it's not good. It's more of a meringue than frosting (as in butter cream frosting, which takes like 12 sticks of butter.)
The cake turned out well, it is more like a pound cake, dense and heavy, than a birthday cake type cake, but it tastes good and the raspberry in the middle is nice. By day two, the frosting has pretty much evaporated.
I think next time I will try a chocolate cake...



Two Cakes:

Two Cakes with Jam:

Weird Frosting:

Voila: