I cake is peace!

Pre-Oven yummy....

Pre-frosting Yummy...

Frosting....  Yummmmyyy.....

All Done Yummy.....

I made this for my 3 year old's last day of camp.  He had already given teacher gifts at the end of the first session he attended, but I wanted to do something.  He finished camp, and will start preschool, at the Jewish Community Center here in town.  His class and teachers ate this for dessert after lunch on the last day.

The recipe for the starlight cake and penuche frosting are from the Betty Crocker cookbook.  My mom has a pretty old copy and I have a re-issue of the original edition.  The recipes are in both, but slightly different.  My brother and I altered the recipe into it's current form when we were little.  If my parents left us at home for a date night, we usually baked something together.  It was so fun, even when we messed up.  There was a serious cookie incident that involved some of the most disgusting cookies I've ever seen or eaten!  We decided, when making this cake for my Mom's birthday one year, that we should add cinnamon apples.  It really makes the cake so much more moist and delicious.  Mama convinced us to use canned apple pie filing once when we made this for a party and it was awful.  You really should just cook about 3 regular apples down on the stove yourself.  Just add a little water, sugar, cinnamon, and lemon juice. 

Now, this is the cake I make for my parents, brother, and immediate family when I'm close enough during a birthday celebration.  If my brother is present, we go back into old roles and make it together like we have so many times.  This is (enter my real name here)'s Cake.  Which means the world to me.  I want to insert it more into my families traditions, so that my boys think of it that way too.

Maybe now it can be an end of the school year cake.  I need, however, to figure out how to make sure it's Kosher so everyone can enjoy it!