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Mmmmm chocolate cake

Chocolate cake is one of my all-time favorite foods.

Dave knows this because I have told him a minimum of 14 times, at least once each year that I've known him. Sometimes I am lucky enough to get chocolate cake for my birthday. But it's not just any chocolate cake I want. I like supermarket cake. Moist, spongy, not-too-chocolatey cake with fluffy, trans-fat-loaded buttercream frosting is what I love.

My grandma passed away exactly a week before my birthday, and I headed down to Southern California to be with family soon thereafter. Dave and I knew we'd probably spend my birthday apart. So the night before I left he sneaked off to Safeway and bought two slabs of perfect chocolate cake. He also bought candles and a tube of white gel icing and personalized the twin towers of cake. We're not sure if the red blobs were supposed to be flowers or chili peppers.

It was excellent cake. We split one of the pieces and -- this is the best part -- there was still plenty left over for breakfast the next morning. With melted-candle-wax sprinkles.

Let's see if I can blog about food every day in July. I reserve the right to dig through my photo archives for material. If I succeed, I'll increase my blogging frequency tenfold over June. Even if I don't, I think July will be a much better month than June was.

July 1, 2008 11:50 PM