More Cheese More Chocolate

This year for my birthday I am focusing on baked goods. I have had a persistent cold for three weeks now, so going out and boozing is out of the question. To make up for all of the calories I would otherwise be wasting on champagne and tequila I am consuming various morsels, large and small, of anything baked.

Although my birthday is today, I started early by baking a cornmeal yogurt cake on Friday. I kept the train running on Saturday with a giant cinnamon roll from French Meadow Bakery. When I say giant, I mean giant. It was the size of a small melon. To my credit, I ate a salad before indulging, and I spread the consumption out over the course of two days. On the other had, I had no help from Matt. I ate that whole thing on my own. And it was totally worth it. I’m going to make my dad get one this weekend when my parents come to visit.

Come Sunday night I had not had any kind of baked good for about 8 hours, so I decided it was time to make cake.  When I was growing up my mom would usually make either carrot cake or strawberry cake for my birthday, and they both sounded appealing.  In the end carrot cake won out.  I haven’t been to the optometrist this year, so I thought the vitamin A from the carrots would be really beneficial.  Cream cheese frosting was a huge factor in my decision, too.