Birthday Cake Adventure

Today is my amazing husband Andrews birthday! He does so much for me, and is always coming home with flowers or treats of some kind for me, and he has been working so hard this past week as he starts law school, so decided I wanted to make today a special day for him. When he woke up this morning I made him his favorite breakfast, creamed eggs over toast. If you have never had this, don't judge. I had never had it until I met Andrew. Now I love it and it is a regular at our house. Creamed eggs doesn't sound too appealing, but trust me on this one. If you've had it you know what I mean. If you haven't had it let me know and i'll send you the recipe because you need to try it. Anyways, after breakfast he went off to school. Usually he has class until around 4 but today his afternoon class got cancelled (lucky birthday present right?) so he got out of class  and group study stuff around 2. Since I have a lot of free time (yes I am still looking for a job. Leave it us to move to not only the state, but also the city with the highest unemployment rate in the country. Yea us...) Well I decided I wanted to make Andrew a birthday cake from scratch while he was at school. I love to bake, but I have never made a cake from scratch before so I knew it was going to be an adventure before it ever began.
I only needed three things for the cake. So I decided to hop in my car and go to the grocery store. There is a grocery store a few miles from our house, but it's way overpriced so to get to a good grocery store I have to get on the freeway. I am still learning my way around in Vegas and I accidentally took the wrong exit. I was talking to my sister on the phone so I probably wasn't paying as much attention as I should have. I thought I'd gotten off the right exit, but there was a Walgreens where Smiths should have been. So I decided to drive down the street a while, still talking to my sister on the phone. Needless to say I went in the wrong direction and I got completely lost. I finally found the freeway again, but once again I got off on the same exit and ran into Walgreens again. I wish I could say I was still on the phone to excuse my blonde moment, but I wasn't. So I drove the OTHER way down the street and I eventually found Smiths. To make matters even worse. I have been to Smiths at least 5 times since we moved here. I don't know how I got so lost. After an hour I finally made it home from the store. 
I decided to make a White Chocolate Raspberry Cake (Yummy, right?) I wanted the cake to turn out perfect so I followed the instructions to a tee. 

First I mixed everything together as instructed and I greased/floured the pans

Then I distributed the batter between the three pan sizes

Then I put them in the pre heated oven. About one minute in I remembered I had forgotten to put the white chocolate in the batter. I didn't think White Chocolate Raspberry Cake would be the same without the white chocolate so I hurried and pulled them all out of the oven, poured the batter back into the mixing bowl, and I added the white chocolate chips.

I then washed and re greased the pans and poured the batter back into the pans. 

This looks all too familiar.

Then I baked them

The frosting didn't come with any instructions, just ingredients. I figured it wouldn't be too hard and I didn't think I could mess it up. Well I am pretty sure I messed it up somehow. I still don't know what I did wrong. I added all the ingredients, but it was still in a liquid state. So I added more powdered sugar. The recipe called for 1 cup of powdered sugar. By the time I was done I had added a whole BIG bag (32oz) of powdered sugar and it still wasn't thick. But I was out of powdered sugar and I didn't want to go back to the store because we all know how well that worked out earlier. SO I forged ahead. Here is the icing. Home made raspberry icing is AMAZING by the way.

After my cakes had cooled it was time to assemble my masterpiece.... One guess how well that turned out. Its the leaning tower of birthday cake! Oozing everywhere! It was a HUGE delicious mess. When I was talking to my sister on the phone I told her I was making white chocolate raspberry cake and she told me that sounded sexy. Well this is anything BUT sexy.

After much work and chilling it in the fridge to try and harden up the icing it started to look like a cake. Kind of. Or a strawberry chocolate fountain. Either way it looks tasty right?

Final touches and I was finished. It only took about 4  -5 hours if you include my trip to the store.

I decided it was too girly and not enough birthday. I knew my husband wouldn't care how girly or unbirthday it looked as long as it tasted good, but I wanted to try and make it a little more birthday ish. One guess how well that went... It now has a Halloweenish written happy birthday on the top. Hahaha I tried. 

So how did Andrew like it?  That is a sad story. He got home from school in the middle of my baking mess and told me that he wasn't feeling well. So he went and laid down while i finished. By the time I got done he had gotten sicker and now he's throwing up and has chills and fever. The poor guy is sick on his birthday. So the cake is still sitting untouched in the fridge. I gave him his birthday present, even though I told him I wasn't getting him anything more since he bought a new HTC 3D phone and a Mac Book Pro last month. Those are what he wanted for his birthday (the computer he needed for school too) but he didn't want to wait until his birthday so I let him get them early. I got him an exercise pull up/push up/sit up bar thing he's had his eyes. But since he isn't feeling well he hasn't gotten to test it out yet. Although he did tell me it would be more of a birthday present for me since I will be the one to enjoy his ripped out muscles he is going to get from it. ha ha. I love him! He is always making me smile. 

And so that is Andrews birthday cake adventure. It's not over yet. We still need to devour it, but that will have to wait until the birthday boy is feeling better, for now its sprite and rest. 

Also, We finally got couches!!!!!!!!!!!!! You don't realize how much you miss something until it's gone. We really like them and they fit in our apartment really well. 

And here is another picture I found that I wanted to post. This is Andrew with our new nephew Simon. Andrew and I were watching the kids while his sisters colored their hair. When I walked in the room this is what I found. Whose babysitting who?

Isn't that the cutest thing!