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Red Velvet Cake

This is essentially the Red Velvet Cake recipe that I made for the boy's birthday. It's a tradition in my family to have Red Velvet Cake for birthdays using the Waldorf recipe that my mother transcribed onto an index card many, many moons ago. This year, for my birthday, she could not find her recipe card and my father, god bless him, found the recipe online.

Substitute real butter for the shortening and make two rounds of icing to make sure that there's enough. (The extra goes great between homemade cookies for impromptu moon pies!)

This recipe makes great cupcakes too!

GIST:

1. Not Martha

2. The new Tim Burton movie: Alice in Wonderland

3. Paper Pot via Apartment Therapy

4. Woody the Drum Light wants to live in my dining room.

5. Beautiful jewelry by Elizabeth Scott

GIST: 34 of 365

1. Spending lots of time with the boy this weekend.

2. Trying new things: frogs legs.

3. The cafe at the American Indian Museum. They always have great things to eat there!

4. The Hirshorn.

5. Making new friends at Art-O-Matic.

GIST: 34.5 of 365

1. Leftover crabcakes and red velvet cake for lunch. The crabcakes are from dinner with my dad for Father's Day yesterday, the red velvet is from the cake I made for the boy for his birthday!

2. Cornmeal buttermilk pancakes & BACON for breakfast made by my fantastic roommate.

3. Getting caught up at work.