Cake # 28 Strawberry Mousse Cake

As we get older, we do not grow out of toys and games, they grow with us. If watching Evalyn and Ted playing with jumbo Legos at Port Discovery isn't an indicator of this, than the fact that the Queen of England has a golden Wii certainly must be. That is how I feel about baking. It started with the EasyBake oven that turned brown liquid into brown mush that we called a "cake", and moved to this obsession to find new "toys" to bake with and new things to create- and sometimes they still are brown mush.

Today was a flashback of my childhood. Ted, his mom, his sister, his sister's boyfriend (who I adore), Evie and yours truly squeezed in my Hyundai Veracruz and made the trip down to the Inner Harbor to spend a day with Evie at Port Discovery. The place was amazing and I think Evie will have even more fun there when she is older. We got to play with toys, blocks, books, puzzles, puppets, and balls, and we got to make believe we were shopping  (Evie really wanted to buy the fake box of Cheez-Its). All the while, Evie flirted with Ronnie (Katie's boyfriend) and was extremely pleasant.  Our family is extremely lucky to have these people in our lives, they love our daughter to death and beg us to let them babysit just so they can spend time with Evie...how cool is that?

So I am finally home, and finally able to post the picture of the toy that grew with me from my childhood to my adulthood. My cake. A Strawberry Mousse Cake, that in every way  reminds me of childhood- first of all, it has mousse (what kid didn't eat some sort of mousse growing up?) made by whipping heavy cream, and pureed strawberries. Next, it has strawberry gelatin. And finally, besides the massive amounts of sugar, it is topped with strawberry jelly... Hello elementary school lunch! In addition to those ingredients, the cake called for butter, flour, baking powder, eggs, vanilla, milk, and orange juice.

Here is the book's cake:

And here is my cake:

I just can't leave the stems on the strawberries like the picture in the book does- I don't care if it looks more artistic, it isn't practical!

Anyway, another weekend and another cake down. Hopefully next week I will have another Easybake cake.