Throwback to Childhood Birthdays with Cherry Chip Yellow Cake and Cherry Frosting (Usually Cupcakes, But This Time a Layered Bundt Cake)

Cynde found the ol' treats online, and sent me the ingredients to make my own cake. It was a day of vinegar, Skunk-B-Gone, Axe body lotion, and incense, but I still manage to make a cake to go with Kris and Dave's jambalaya to match their new kitchen floor. I managed to NOT bring the skunk smell with me and poor Karal is tired of being bathed and without daily rubs and hugs around the house.

That is what happens when you take a skunk-beating in your mouth.

I also had good time to plan ahead for Austin and to put together 10-years of CWP data in support of the programs that will be featured at NCTEAR. I awarded myself with the dinner and cake, of course.

And that cake...sweeter than I remember, but Cynde's advice to make a cherry ganache actually worked. It doesn't necessarily lend itself to chocolate, but I did find dark chocolate with cherry innards, so I added that at the last minute.

That jumbalaya, though: shrimp, chicken, sausage, spices, and rice. That was perfection. When they head to PA, I'll miss their cooking for sure.

We finished the evening with a few games of Spoons and I came home to smell the faint remembrances of the skunking. It will go away, because it eventually has to go away.

In the meantime, it's Sunday followed by a holiday. Let their be rest.