It was my dear Scott Bobleo's Birthday on Thursday! He turned twenty seven! Wowzers! We are getting so old. It will be my turn to be 27 in July. I know all of you 30+ folks are cursing me for bitching about 27, but after 25, every year that gets you closer to 30 feels kind of heavy. The pressure is on if I want to keep up with the five year plan I imagined up two years ago when we turned 25.
Big goals by 30!
-Find Job Working From Home
-Launch Craft Business to Build Capital to Launch Soap Business
-Achieve some semblance of financial stability
-Achieve ACTUAL financial stability
-Get Married
-Move to Much Cheaper Area (It's looking like Bangor, Maine)
-Launch Soap Business
-Be Making a PROFIT on soap business before babies
-Have Babies
Phew! That's some list, but at least we're on our way.
Scott Bobleo has his own list of goals, one of which we took care of last week.
-Own Dirt Bike
-Get Promoted at Work
-Get Promoted at Work Once More
-Move to Much Cheaper Area (It's looking like Bangor, Maine)
-Make Enough Money So That He Won't Have to Work TWO to THREE Jobs Anymore
-Get Promoted One More Time
-Own Our Own Home
-Buy Snowmobile
-Buy Quad
-Buy Twin Kayaks
-Adopt an Entire Dog Sled Team to Keep Gracie Company
So all in all we are making fairly dandy progress - and Scott's turning twenty seven is just another kick in the ass to make us re-assess our goals for the remainder of our second decade. To celebrate, I baked him a cake. Not just any cake, the most kick-ass Peanut Butter Lover's cake ever!! Get ready, people, I'm about to BLOW your MIND.
I un-cozied Edna, and revved her up for the big day. "You've got a lot of work to do today Edna", I said. "Better get your ass in gear!"
As soon as she was ready I set to work making a Classic Yellow Layer Cake using the Yellow Cake from this recipe from Martha Stewart's website.
I made two round cakes, one of which split when I turned it out of the pan!! EEEk! Z'ok though, luckily it split in a way that was easily overcome. I just used the unstable cake on the bottom so the top would stay pretty. Next, I made up a batch of Peanut Butter Frosting from this Whoopie Pie recipe.
This stuff was so delicious. It will definitely be making appearances in other baked items sometime soon. Yum yum yum. After that, I cooked up some Rich Chocolate Frosting. This stuff was a little more liquidy than I had expected. I suspect I either did something very wrong, or the picture from the cake recipe was not using the same icing. I had to drizzle this frosting over the cake. It was far from the light, fluffy frosting pictured in the recipe. Luckily, the dark flavor of it offset the peanut butter filling very nicely.
After it was all frosted I sprinkled the whole thing with Reese's Pieces. My man loves his peanut butter.
And it looks like he loved his cake too! Happy birthday Bobleo!!