An old-fashioned scratch layer cake, called 1-2-3-4 Yellow Cake because of the ingredient amounts.
Basic 1-2-3-4 Yellow Birthday Cake
I've already told ya'll that I'm not big on baking layer cakes, because well, I'm too much of a perfectionist and my cakes are always far from perfect looking - uneven layers, too much or too little filling between the layers, crumbs in the frosting,- though at least they (generally) all taste good.
As far as decorating? Pfffft. I just don't have that talent.
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While I envy those who can, I am totally uncoordinated and clueless on how to manipulate those tiny, little cake decorating tips to create all those pretty designs and have certainly never had the courage to attempt that on a birthday cake!
Maybe one day I will just bake a cake for playing around with. I could use the practice both for cake making and cake decorating. Or maybe even take a class?!
Usually when birthdays roll around, there are often guests involved so certainly if you're a klutz like I am, it is so much more sensible and certainly easier to simply buy a cake from the deli that is totally expert and not really all that expensive and be done with it.
Well, The Cajun's birthday is coming up and I sure could have done that and not felt the least bit guilty either, especially since I haven't been feeling all that well lately with this goofy weather. But, to be honest, we down south know that there is much truth to that old sayin' that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach and good ole home cooking is a very primary way that we show our love.
So for an intimate birthday involving basically just him, me, our son, daughter in law, and grandson, it just seems so much more appropriate to make his cake from scratch.
Now I don't object to boxed mixes at all - sure makes things easier - but, I often find them to be overly sweet and prefer to bake from scratch where I can control the ingredients and avoid things I don't want like preservatives and all.
And The Cajun, while he could care less whether or not my cake looks perfect, I know that he appreciates knowing that his wife made him a fresh cake from scratch cuz I've heard him braggin' on them before. Now that'll bring a smile to a wife's face faster than most anything for sure!
And honestly, in this economy I think that it's a good thing to sort of get back to the basics in cooking whenever we can. What better opportunity than your husband's birthday?
Last year I made him a chocolate on chocolate layer cake for his birthday so this year I thought I'd just do the yellow cake with chocolate frosting. This cake is called a 1-2-3-4 cake because the ingredients call for 1 - cup of butter, 2 - cups of sugar, 3 - cups of flour and 4 - eggs. Simple 1-2-3-4.
And hey, it's just really a great cake!
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