Birthday Girls are the new awesome
Guess whose birthday it is today? This girl:
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/betsy.0.jpg)
Maybe you recognize her? She runs half marathons. She kills spiders with the greatest of ease. She owns cuter shoes than anyone I know. She is my roommate.
What do you do on your roommate's birthday? Bake her a cake. I bought some neat pans that help you make a checkerboard cake like this:
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/checkerboardcake.2.jpg)
So I made two mixes full of cake batter and dyed them orange and black:
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/IMG_0482.jpg)
And put on my checkered vans to really channel my checkered martha stewart:
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/IMG_0428.jpg)
Then we poured the batter into the sneaky separating cake pan thingie...![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/IMG_0489.jpg)
and when you take the plastic thing out of the pan, it makes perfectly seperated cake parts, which when baked and stacked on top of one another, make a checkerboard cake!
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/IMG_0485.jpg)
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/IMG_0493.jpg)
You don't get to see the final result quite yet, but it will probably come out looking a lot like this:
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/scary%20cake.3.jpg)
Come by the apartment tonight if you want to see what checkerboard tastes like.
Happy Birthday, Betsy!
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/betsy.0.jpg)
Maybe you recognize her? She runs half marathons. She kills spiders with the greatest of ease. She owns cuter shoes than anyone I know. She is my roommate.
What do you do on your roommate's birthday? Bake her a cake. I bought some neat pans that help you make a checkerboard cake like this:
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/checkerboardcake.2.jpg)
So I made two mixes full of cake batter and dyed them orange and black:
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/IMG_0482.jpg)
And put on my checkered vans to really channel my checkered martha stewart:
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/IMG_0428.jpg)
Then we poured the batter into the sneaky separating cake pan thingie...
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/IMG_0489.jpg)
and when you take the plastic thing out of the pan, it makes perfectly seperated cake parts, which when baked and stacked on top of one another, make a checkerboard cake!
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/IMG_0485.jpg)
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/IMG_0493.jpg)
You don't get to see the final result quite yet, but it will probably come out looking a lot like this:
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1778/2287/320/scary%20cake.3.jpg)
Come by the apartment tonight if you want to see what checkerboard tastes like.
Happy Birthday, Betsy!