It's a bit of a running joke in our house how many times Matt has promised to make me a birthday cake... Which has no far not happened. The conversation about it usually has him reminding me about the time he had me pick up the stuff from the store for him to make a cake. Which I remind him I used to make his cake the following week.

This year he promised again - with the addition that he was going to make it from scratch! He asked what kind of cake I wanted - my favorite has always been chocolate cake with chocolate icing. He then asked if they sold chocolate flour. Hmm...

All teasing the hubster aside, I know he can read and follow a recipe, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt that he would pull this cake thing off with no problem!

And he did! Ok, so he iced it while it was a teensy bit warm, so he stuck it outside to make sure it cooled off before the icing melted off the sides. One benefit to living in such a cold climate!

Look at that beauty! And we had company coming over for the fondue birthday celebration and they were all quite impressed by Matt's baking ability. We didn't even really need the ice cream Brittney bought (just in case!), though I don't think any of us turned down having a scoop on top! :)

Doesn't he look so proud of himself and his awesome chocolate cake? I finally asked him which recipe he used and it was the one on the back of the Hershey's cocoa box. My favorite chocolate cake recipe!! What a great hubby, huh? I'm pretty sure he got some ribbing from the other guys there about making them look bad, but I did point out it took the better part of a decade, so they had some time before they had to get around to it.

It was totally worth waiting for, Matt! I love you and your cake!