Yesterday everyone came to my house for the party. My sister made a special point of bringing his very favorite cake- Italian cream. Actually, this cake is the only cake we ever had for birthdays growing up. A close friend of the family was a baker and every year my dad brought home an Italian cream cake- rum flavored and covered in tiny peanut bits.
I never cared for it all that much.
But don't get me wrong. I ate it. Duh! It was CAKE, after all. My favorite memory was the year my dad had "Uncle Joe" put Beatles figurines on the top for me. I wish I had saved them. But to tell you the truth, as an adult I'm not much of a cake person. I like carrot cake and ice cream cake a lot but that's the only kind I really go crazy over. I don't care much for cupcakes either. I just don't feel like wasting the calories on something I don't really like. It's too hard to work it off.
Anyway, so yesterday my sister brought this beautiful cake from an Italian bakery outside of Philly called Testa's:
It was a work of art. But only briefly until she sliced it up and everyone snarfed it. But then the kids realized I had cupcakes. An assortment of chocolate and vanilla iced in bright colors and something new just for my dad- lemon meringue cupcakes! Once I found this recipe I knew I had to make it- my dad loves lemon meringue! They're just basic vanilla cupcakes with lemon meringue on top, but instead of filling the cupcakes, I put the lemon dollop on top. I don't bake much, I prefer to cook, but for a special occasion I'll break out the beaters. They turned out so pretty, I had to take a picture:
Needless to say, my dad was pleased as punch, and so was I, because my sister took the leftover cake and there were no cupcakes left so no temptation for me!
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