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Mark's Birthday Cake

Recip via Smitten Kitchen.

The best part of this cake is that chocolate buttercream. It is worth the time it takes to make the entire cake just to get to the frosting. You can trust me on this because I'm usually someone who scrapes off the icing to get to the cake. Mmm...

so easy you'll hate me for it

But don't blame me, blame Ina. This recipe for Easy Sticky Buns is really that easy. You'll be happy at first. Until you realize that they are way too easy and that you can make them anytime. Like at 9:00 at night when you should be done eating for the day and you find that you can throw them together in 10 minutes and eat two (and a half) in a row until your stomach aches and you have to go to bed and read David Copperfield for three hours. And it all could have been avoided. Except that they are so easy! But, like I said, don't blame me. Blame Ina.

A Little Tip

The recipe says 400 degrees F for 30 minutes but I found that they burned at that time/temperature. So I did 375 for 26 minutes. Could be my 25-year-old-oven though. Just make an effort to watch them carefully and do flip them onto the parchment right out of the oven. 

If I Could Eat Only One Food For The Rest Of My Life

I made the Sour Cream Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Peanut Butter Frosting and Peanut Butter Chocolate Glaze, from the Sky High cake book, the one that Smitten Kitchen made famous, for my dad's birthday bash on Saturday. I doubled the recipe to make two cakes to be sure that I had enough for the crowd. Honestly though, I probably would have been fine with just one because when she says to slice thin and it serves more than you think, she is dead right. Wow. Delicious.

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More pics here and here.