Sweet 16 Cake

Don't you just love it when your birthday was five days ago and you are still getting cake and presents!!?? Well, that's my case, and I am certainly not complaining! My parents made this cake for me today. See, they never really agreed with me making my own birthday cake (even if I did make only part of it), so they wanted to give me another birthday cake, that I didn't even know about. To be honest, even though it sounds a little selfish, I had been expecting them to make me a small birthday cake. Since I always had two birthday cakes when I was younger, one for my party and one for home, I kind of expected two birthday cakes now, especially since I partly made my cake and most of it was eaten by my friends. However, I figured if I hadn't gotten my cake by now, I wasn't getting one, and I had kind of given up on it. My parents decided to make this cake for me today for several reasons. They didn't want to make it any earlier because my other birthday cake was fairly large, and lasted for a few days, especially since one of my brothers wasn't here to help us eat it. Although that cake disappeared a few days ago, two cakes in a row might have been a bit much. Also, since it is a weekend, my parents had more time to make the cake (not to mention the fact that I was gone all afternoon so they could make it in secret). Today was actually the day I was due anyway, so it worked out well. I got pretty excited at suppertime when my mother said there was a surprise, and I got even more excited when I saw candles being taken out. I was very happy to have sixteen candles on my birthday cake, and not just two candles in the shape of a one and a six. I was even more surprised that I was actually able to blow them all out in one breath.
This cake is actually the base of a lazy daisy cake, which is a simple hot milk vanilla cake that is usually topped with coconut or nuts and brown sugar and broiled in the oven until golden and bubbly. My mother made the cake part, she was looking for something quick, easy, and small. I absolutely love lazy daisy cake, and although the topping is what makes it lazy daisy cake, this cake also makes a nice, moist base for an iced cake. My father made a simple icing out of confectioner's sugar, margarine, and milk, and simply used a plastic bag to pipe the lettering in my favorite color (he didn't even need to dig into my fancy cake decorating kit). A very simple but delicious cake. Actually, this was basically what most of the cakes in our house looked like before I started decorating cakes extravagantly. Thanks so much Mom and Dad!