On Sunday we had a picnic at church.  It was a very special picnic, celebrating the dedication of the building.  One of these days I will get some pictures so you can see how beautiful it is.
Anyway.  I wanted to take something wonderful and this was it.  I have heard it referred to as Holy Cow Cake but we call it Butterfinger Cake.

 
Cakes are spectacular without much gilding the lily but sometimes it is fun to do something a little bolder. I don’t knwo if any of you have ever used a checkerboard cake pan but I love mine! It is so much fun to cut into the cake and see people’s faces when they see that checkerboard pattern show up. I have done them in pink and white, in blue and white (baby showers), and the traditonal chocolate and white..but you could do them in any combination. The trick is not to spread the frosting thickly between the layers …read more

This is my very favorite chocolate from  scratch cake.  It is moist and chocolatey. Be prepared for the batter to look very runny compared to other cake batters you might be used to. It’s o.k..somehow it works out great in the end. The cake is very dark..you could try using the Hersheys Special Dark cocoa instead of regular for an even richer chocolate cake.
  Just want to mention really quick that Marc is in the hospital with severe knee pain..the doctors have him on morophine…We are unsure what is happening next but have great faith that all will be well. …read more

I snagged this off of the blog of a foodie friend from Grouprecipes.com. In looking at her recipes, I was impressed with her ability to come up with unusual combinations. You can find more of her fabulous ideas at
Dancing Like Nobody’s Watching

Paula used this curry frosting with a chocolate cake but I think that I am going to try it with an apple spice cake. The combination of curry buttercream and moist apple spice cake seems to me to be exactly the kind of thing I like, comfort food with a unique twist.
Curry …read more