Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Happy Independence Day!

Used Betty Crocker yellow cake mix and cream cheese frosting:
ingredients

yellow cake in progress

As founding father, Alexander Hamilton once said: "I will always remember this profound cake as a metaphor for the ethnic, socioeconomic, and political trials and tribulations that have decorated the American historical landscape..."
4th of July cake

Followed years later by the quote of Abraham Lincoln: "Upon running out of raspberries, the strawberries are representative of the trying times this country has faced, during which we must make do with what we have!"