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Another year, and even prettier! Emily’s birthday is another occasion for which she just loves the month of February. In perfect form to her family’s tradition I tried my best to order her a Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake and have it flown down to the island, but it was not to be. Thus, as has become my tradition each year, I got to make her an ice-cream cake – homemade (more to that later).
All things considered it was a pretty quite birthday. To be honest, Emily has been dreading leaving her 20’s for a while, but I keep telling her that your “30’s” are great! Yet to her insistence she is going to celebrate a perpetual 29th birthday!
Normally a birthday is all about the birthday girl, but her special day just happened to fall on a Sunday – the Lord’s day. To make matters a bit more complicated, I was preaching. I even promised her a short sermon as a birthday present to her, and sadly I was unable to deliver, even though I did my best.
After church it was, “out to eat” for a special lunch at her favorite restaurant, Sky Beach. I mentioned to our server that it was her birthday and in what was a complete surprise, the restaurant gave her ice-cream and cake on the house! And expensive ice-cream and cake, like the fancy kind with rich chocolate sauce and little flecks of something extremely tasty in the ice-cream.
As I mentioned earlier it was a quite birthday, and this was due primarily to the weather. In congruency with her mournful state of leaving her 20’s, the sky rained all day long. It was that chilly and dreary February rain. But Emily knows how to make the most of a rainy day as well. She got bundled up in her comfy clothes and spent the rest of the day under a blanket for some R&R.
Our big lunch provided for us full bellies so we didn’t even cook dinner. Instead it was time for that infamous homemade ice-cream cake. This cake takes several steps of preparation. First you have to melt some tasty flavors (usually Vanilla and then a Carmel or Turtle Sunday flavor) in a cake pan and smooth them out and refreeze them. Then you have to very carefully unfreeze them from their pans and layer them. This takes great skill and I usually botch up one side of one of them in the process. The good news is that you repair ice-cream cake with a spatula if your fast and get it back into the freezer quick.
The problem and the hilarity of the ice-cream cake creation comes with the application of the frosting. I unfortunately made mine with margarine rather than butter, it therefore had a lower melting point, and as soon as I applied it to the ice-cream cake, it proceeded to melt the top layer of ice-cream and slowly goop down the edges of the cake until it was lumping over the edge of the plate and onto EVERYTHING!!!
Its the thought that counts!
Love you Em, and happy birthday!