When the weather gets hot, the last thing you would want to do is to bake. Am I wrong? But when it’s someone’s birthday, you have no excuses. You go bake that cake even if it means you’ll melt in the kitchen. That’s exactly what I did. I must admit I wasn’t entirely prepared to make a birthday cake. I was too distracted by my recently acquired sprinkles. SPRINKLES! And when I say sprinkles, I mean the 5 containers of stars, pumpkins, colored sugar crystals, and small balls that I have tucked away in the pantry. I was so excited about those dang sprinkles that I forgot about buying ingredients to frost the cake. Hence the bright green chocolate sauce. Let me just put it out there that this sauce looks a bit like absinthe, which to some people might be an amazing thing. But it’s actually green mint baking chips by Guittard. This all began when I realized that I didn’t have any ingredients for frosting. True, I could have opted to just serve a naked cake, but that would be no different from me serving a flattened out muffin and calling it a birthday cake. A birthday cake needs and craves garnishes. Enter the bright green mint sauce. As luck would have it, I had anything but plain-old chocolate chips around the house. That’s where the green mint chips step in. When I stirred this emerald green sauce for the cake, I suddenly realized that the sauce would turn the cake into a Frankenstein. To make sure that I didn’t turn this cake into a ghoulish surprise, I dug up all the white chocolate chips I could find and made another sauce to top each layer. The vanilla cake is based on the cake for two recipe by Molly of My Name is Yeh. That cake (and quite frankly all her recipes) looked so good, I thought it would be perfect for this occasion. Of course, if you’re more sensible than I am, you’ll frost this cake with actual whipped cream or icing. TELL ME: What is your favorite kind of cake?
