Cake In Flames or Just Too Many Candles

We did not travel this year for my birthday. We stayed home. We had just gotten back (and recovering) from our trip to LA and will be travelling in July. It didn't make sense to go away. I woke up early but promptly went back to sleep since it was Saturday after all. Then we went to get a new prescription snorkling mask for Lauren(to Lauren's delight) and fins for Emma followed by lunch at a sushi place (soooo fuuuulllll).

Here is Lauren working on my birthday cake. She made a Tres Leche cake from her Emeril cookbook. Bless her! So worth the calories (note to self: get on that treadmill!).














Here is the cake before it was set on fire.










And here is the aftermath (another note to self: red wine no matter how good - and it was very, very good- doesn't really go with Tres Leche cake - better drink it by itself or eat cake by itself but not together).









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