Hmmm...how to say happy birthday to the stoutest-hearted daddy on these four green acres? How about a chocolate cake made with beer and frosted with salted caramel? Yeah! That'll do it.
We found a cupcake recipe over at the Brooklyn Kitchen blog that said, "Try me, try me." So we did. We turned our lush batter into some cupcakes and also a one-layer cake of splendid flavor and yumminess. It seemed a cake suited the birthday boy better than a mere cupcake.
Did we mention the sprinkle of Malden's flakes of sea salt on top? And espresso beans gleaming with dark chocolate?
Happy birthday, Birch!
12 comments:
Wow, this cake looks very delicious indeed! What more if it is made at home with plenty of love. My Happy Birthday wishes and 'Many Happy Returns of the Day' to Birch, the lucky person.
Beer and dark chocolate - two best things for a great man. Happy Birthday!
hey birch! (and june, blossom, and fern) HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIRCH! also to the girls! hope you had a great day! that cake looks really good, also!!!! yummmmmmmmmmmm
This sounds fab - and it was our GardenBoy's birthday too... so perhaps I should suggest this to him. The one he had picked out of my recipe book was a Honey-Chocolate one from Nigella Lawson's 'Feast' recipe book... we were inundated with cakes from friends though (lucky us!) so I promised I would make it when we had finished our gift-cakes. Maybe he'll change his mind for beer-chocolate cake...
I just made some choc cup cakes on Friday for my friend's bridal shower. I saved this recipe for other occasion. TQ!
happy birthday birch and fern and blossom.we will send you yummy thoughts of baby backs from the ozarks... cake looks and sounds great... enjoy the day
xoxo
that sounds outrageous!
Wow, now that's a cake! Happy belated Birch! You are one lucky Daddy and Hubby!
Wow!!! What a recipe!!
Mmmmm, that cake looks yummy! I love the combination of sweet, chocolate, and salty. It looks beautiful, too. A Happy Birthday to your darling.
Wow! Recipe please! :) Happy Belated Birthday to Birch. A well deserved treat for sure.
I make a similar cake that is three layers of near-black chocolatey stouty goodness. I love the idea of salted caramel icing. Great suggestion!
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