This weekend was my little bro's birthday. Our birthdays are 6 days (plus a few years) apart so this is heavy cake baking time in my family. My little bro has celiac so he can't have any form of wheat gluten. He was diagnosed quite a long while ago before there were decent mixes available for baked goods. We've all tried gluten free baking with various degrees of success. A notable failure on my part was the gluten free biscuit incident of 2004. I thought the phrase "biscuits you could chip a tooth on" was an example of hyperbole. Not so, my friends. These biscuits were stuck so throughly to the pan that I had to throw the pan away. Steel wool didn't even work.
My brother is pretty laid back and really doesn't ask that we make a fuss and try to bake for him. But if there is one day a year to make a fuss it's on your birthday.
So this year I made him a vanilla lemon layer cake with lemon curd filling, whip cream icing, and blueberries. I also made homemade vanilla bean ice cream. It was, to toot my own horn, very tasty.
As Mr. J chanted all weekend, "Happy Birthday Uncle David!"
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