birthday bake!

Last weekend was Michael's birthday.  I knew I wanted to make a cake, and he put in a request for a vanilla cake with raspberry filling.  I got the recipe out of a Martha Stewart baking cookbook, so I don't have the recipe to link up to, but here is one similar.

As annoying as Martha Stewart can be, her recipes have never let me down.

I got up early on Saturday morning and got to work on the cake (with my mom's help!)

we licked the bowl clean, the batter tasted like pure heaven! 

raspberry filling

the finished product!

Happy birthday Michael <3