So.

Last year I completly forgot about my Step mother’s birthday. More than that actually. last year I had no idea when her birthday was. it wasn’t until she and i were both on facebook when I saw her birthdate. I was four days late. (

This year, the hubs and I decided that we would not only remember her birthday, but that we would bake her a very special cake to commemorate it.

See, My stepmother has an awesomely huge collection of teddy bears and angels. She loves them! So when we saw this 3D bear shaped pan in the store, we bought it. We bought it, we brought it home and we made it. or should I say, attempted to make it.

Yeah. Fail. big time. And it was our fault too. See the cake pan called for use to use a mix of a regular ‘layer cake” and a pound cake, but we went ahead and bought a boxed cake mix and tried it like that.

So fine, that didn’t work, we got online and started searching for pound cake recipes. I will admit, we were way put off. All the recipes kept saying that things have to be done perfectly or the cake iwll not work out, there were so many little things that had to be done too! So then we searched to see if you coudl buy a boxed pound cake mix, and were elated to see that you can. Yeah. YOU can, I can’t. becuase we looked in nine differnt stores and could not find a single box!

So, we gave up. For now. But with the birthday party tomorrow, we went with Plan B:

Coffee is good.