Celebrating Mr. Husband

So last week I was strong enough
to make a cake for Mr. Husband's birthday!

Actually three cakes,
two to be layered into one cake and
brought to our far-away church
to celebrate Mr. Husband's birthday.
I just tripled the recipe
and baked them all at once.
Thankfully our oven is big enough to do this
much baking in!
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Deep Chocolate Vegan Cake 
a Moosewood classic! 

I got these cute little candles
when still unmarried in Ottawa
and buying things that I knew that I would not
know where to get in my new world and life.

I miss Canada I must say!
So it was a bit of advance planning,
but I was so exited to have these little candles
for my love's birthday cake!

Cake tins that were a gift from a
beloved friend for my wedding.
Notice the Fry's cocoa powder?
I bring that from Ottawa too... 

Three cakes mixed up; they were so moist!
Recipe found here;
correction for glaze found here.
Note: the correction is not exactly what I was
told to do; I used 4 tbs of raspberry jam and 1 tbs water...

Mixed and baked for 27 minutes!
Very soft and spongy; tipped upside down when still warm
and so lines got on it.
BUT the glaze was so thick that one could not tell
by the time I was done!

1 lb bakers chocolate semi-sweet (vegan)

Used the whole small jar of this jam.

liquefied this for the pre-frosting glaze,
brushing it on...

Used the double boiler for the first time
to melt the chocolate!
Was instructed to have it simmering
not at a rolling boil.
Worked great.

Glaze but not frosting on.
Made it very raspberry!
I loved the tang with the rich chocolate! 

Church cake, all done.

Mr. Husband's
at home cake!

I made the table all pretty,
with the candles lit
(7 of them because he is perfect for me :) )
(as Mr. Husband says,
we can be nauseatingly precious at times :))

My card is the one with the flower on it.
An Elizabeth-original. 

 

A book on Distributism and Chesterton
that Mr. Husband wanted
and that I was happy to get for him...
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I got him other books as well.
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My heart swelled with happiness as I called him
to see his cake and for me to sing
Happy Birthday to him.
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A long-awaited joy...