Day 85 Happy Dump Cake To You

I wasn't going to make a cake for the double birthday celebration, but I changed my mind. I'm making a dark chocolate cherry dump cake at this instant, very moment for my grown up brother and my mom. That was seriously the easiest thing I've ever made, I just dumped some cherry pie filling in a pan, dumped a dark chocolate cake mix on top, and dotted it with butter, it smells pretty good and it looks like a cake so, I'll take that as a success. I'm not sure if I should cover it with the remaining cherry filling, we'll just see how it goes when it comes out of the oven. This is not my most creative cake, but it will do. I once made a three layered, homemade, from scratch, strawberry cake for a boyfriend. It had strawberries and cream between each layer, it was topped and surrounded by strawberries, the icing was from scratch, it was perfection and it weighed about 10 pounds and cost me about 30.00 and 4 hours. I presented the boyfriend with the cake, who told me that he liked the kind from a box with the pink icing and promptly took the cake as a sign to take off for Hawaii the next day to marry someone else. Lesson learned, all boyfriends will now recieve a plain white cake and will have to provide their own frosting and or sprinkles, candles, and present.
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Day 34 The Cake That Saved Me

Today, I woke up mad. I was mad at the snow, mad at my boss, mad at my dwindling bottle of shampoo, just upside down, rabid monkey angry. So, I strapped on my old lady, anti-slip, sneaker covers for ice travel and headed out in search of happiness. I made it to the little convenience store three parking lots over and was overjoyed to find them open for business. I felt like an orphan who finds her long lost parents, after years of eating gruel. The shelves didn't have much but I was enthralled by every single cellophane wrapped treasure. I nodded hello at my old friends in the soda isle and moved on, so much history, it was hard not to stop and catch up. As I weighed my options and corralled the temptations, I saw it, it was a plain yellow Betty Crocker cake mix, yellow happiness for 1.99! I looked at the required ingredients, oil, eggs, water, check, check, and check. I raced to the check out line, giddy at the thought of one more day of sustenance in my snow filled world. I handed the man my debit card...... sorry, he says, no purchases under 3.00 with a card. I stopped, I stared, please I whispered, I really need this cake! I fluttered my eyelashes, tried to look seductive in my mounds of snow garb. OK, he said, this time I'll do it, but next time....Yes, yes, thank you kind stranger, thank you. Like a raccoon with a tasty piece of garbage, I hurried home with my loot and set to work. The store was out of icing so I invented my own by mixing mocha latte coffee mix with butter and melting it into a chocolate glaze.  I also added a chopped up pear to the cake mix, the icing worked, the pear did not. All in all the cake was super delicious and just what I needed to cheer myself up, while waiting for rescue. Hopefully tomorrow I can go to a real grocery store for fruit and vegetables, maybe I won't catch the scurvy before then.
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