This
post was originally published on
this sitehttp://www.thekitchn.com/feedburnermain
When I was little, my family operated by the principle that when it was your birthday, you could ask for whatever kind of cake you wanted. My dad typically requested carrot cake, my older sister preferred yellow cake with a lot of chocolate frosting, and all my twin sister and I ever wanted was an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen (well, technically we wanted two — one Disney Princess-themed cake for each of us).
That all changed in December 2006, when we gave my mom Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa at Home for Christmas. The first recipe she cooked from the book was called Beatty’s Chocolate Cake, and it has since become the only birthday cake we ever make.
READ MORE »