This past week the blog has been dormant because I was in Bozeman Montana with my family and some of our great friends. While we were there it was our friend's birthday. What do you do when it is someone's birthday? You make them a cake. I have found over the past three months that cakes can be made in the most unusual of places and on a whim. You do not need measuring cups and often do not even need all the creature comforts of your own full stocked kitchen. You simply need to be able to adjust on the fly. Preparing things ahead of time is usually a good idea to. For this particular cake I mixed up all of the dry ingredients in a gallon ziploc bag before we left for the trip. I also chose to mix most of the wet ingredients in a small tupperware before we left so I had left to mix once we got to our hotel. As I have mentioned before, parchment paper is great for assuring that your cakes release from their pans, so I made sure to pre-cut my parchment paper and pack that in one of my bags. All I had to do at the hotel was simply mix the wet and dry ingredients together and dump the batter into the prepared pans. It was, well, cake!! Sure it did not look the best when I was done because I was rushed with the baking of the cake and my frosting that I had made at home was a little thick, but it was delicious. A homemade cake is a homemade cake. Not all cakes that you make will be masterpieces. I always tell people, if it tastes good, people will forget about the asthetic imperfections. Everyone should have a cake on their birthday. If you plan ahead, you can make a cake anywhere from a bachelor pad studio apt that is lacking in measuring cups, to a hotel room in Montana. It truly is the thought that counts.
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