A birthday and a very tall cake.
Cakes
Yesterday was Taylor's birthday, and there is no such thing as a birthday without cake. And rather than allow Taylor to indulge his sweet tooth on the $1 slices of Kroger cake he loves to sneak into the shopping cart from time to time, I decided to put that cake to shame and bake a delicious chocolate cake from scratch. I knew I succeeded by the sigh that came from his mouth after eating the first bite. I used probably the most popular recipe ever to exist on Epicurious, the famous Double Chocolate Layer Cake with the raspberry filling variation a la Smitten Kitchen. However, I know very few people who have a full range of cake pans - 8, 9, and 10 inch. Me, I've got three 8-inch pans (purchased to make that beautiful Petit Four cake from a few months back), and one 9-inch pan. So when this recipe called for two 10-inch pans, I knew I had some modifications to make. Little did I know that those modifications would result in a really tall cake. I thought I had found an accurate
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