Two is better than one

What's better than one chocolate cake?  Two.  Now, they may look the same but they are decidedly not.  

This one is my annual  birthday cake.  Even for a bakery cake, it's a moist cake, buttercream filling, chocolate shell.  It's delicious  but a once a year treat. 

This one is an icon in Detroit.  It's officially called a bumpy cake.  It got it's name, I understand, from an accidental running out of frosting at a bakery.  It's made in a sheet  pan and when the baker ran out of frosting for the top he instead just squirted a few rows of the white and then covered it in a flow of chocolate.  That's what I understand.  This layer version is called a "tube" cake because it's in a layer cake form but the rows of cream were on the top - in shape of tubes.  Copyrights, you know.  

Our son and DIL brought this along and wow! Two iconic chocolate cakes!  This had a much darker chocolate cake and that cream is NOT buttercream but so light and melt in your mouth you aren't sure you even ate it, it's more like whipped cream.  Oh, my.  To eat two pieces, one of each, after a dinner!  But it's your birthday just once a year.

Mike and I are a week apart so we have been sharing the day for the past few years.  He is wearing his presents including that tomahawk steak he's holding.  He wants his meat on a bone - whether chicken or beef or whatever.  He wants the bone.  And he loves his steak.  So, we decided you can't get a bigger steak on a bone than a tomahawk steak. 

Me and my chicks.   

And the whole flock.