Happy birthday Brian

Brian turned 30-something this week. I usually do not bake or cook or really do anything in the kitchen, but I actually made a from scratch cake for Brian's birthday. I always thought that Brian liked hummingbird cake or italian creme cake because that is what I like, but it turns out that he likes just plain old chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Good to know after 10 years of marriage. Costco is forever away from my new house so I could not get the old stand by, the All-American Chocolate Cake. Good thing allrecipes.com had an excellent subsitute. Good ole Sandy, saved the day.

Sandy's Chocolate Cake.

• 3 cups packed brown sugar
• 1 cup butter or margarine, softened
• 4 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup baking cocoa
• 1 tablespoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/3 cups sour cream
• 1 1/3 cups boiling water
• FROSTING:
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine
• 3 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
• 3 (1 ounce) squares semisweet chocolate
• 5 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 cup sour cream
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
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Some how I did not take a precut picture. Oh well you get the point, delicious.

A post chocolate cake coma.

Adam was happy munching on some sweet potato puffs when Gracie decided he was getting jipped and slipped him a piece of cake which he promptly destroyed. He sort of looks like Hitler.