Cake #69 Birthday Number Cake

With my Birthday approaching this Monday- I decided to make the "Birthday Number Cake" but with a twist. See the "Birthday Number Cake" is a huge cake that represents the number age you are turning. Now, I am turning twenty-eight - thirty is creeping its ugly head out of its hiding place - and there was no way I was going to make or eat a cake that was as large as the number twenty-eight. So, I decided to make the cake regardless so I could learn the skill- but instead of the number twenty-eight, I made the letter 'A'. The whole purpose of the cake is to learn how to make a sheet cake and cut it and frost it in a way that it looks like a certain shape. So I made the cake as the recipe called for- eggs, flour, sugar, vanilla, butter, baking powder, and some milk, and I made the icing that the recipe called for - powdered sugar, orange juice, and vanilla. But, instead of cutting the cake into a number I cut the cake into the letter 'A' to represent the 'A'-side.

My friend and I both have our Birthdays a day a part from each other, so I said that we would share in the eating of Birthday cake and I would make a cake to represent "us". See both my friend, Dawn, and myself work at the same High School. We are both English Teachers, and we are both located on what is referred to as the "A-side" of the school. I figured that keeping the cake itself the same, but altering the design would not be a big deal - and instead of decorating the top of the cake with candied orange slices like the book's cake calls for - I decided to top it with red sprinkles because our school colors are red and white.

Here is a picture of the book's number cake:

Here is much smaller Edgewood "A-Side" cake:

On Sunday, I get to participate in my favorite Maryland tradition - eating crabs! For my birthday, Ted is getting a bushel of crabs for me and his family to eat - we are extremely excited because they will be our first crabs of the season - I wonder what Evie will think of the taste, and if she will let me enjoy some of my crabs in peace or if she will be her crazy, but lovable self.

I believe there will be more cake on Sunday as well- but this time it will be ice-cream cake and I will not be making it! Thank goodness for that!

Until next week-