birthdaycake ⁽²⁾

For The Offspring's birthday party, we have a mold with 2 of every letter that is meant to be filled with melted chocolate, my guess. We do outdoor birthday parties and the birthday is in late July, so melted chocolate would be melted chocolate still. And so instead, we pour hard candy over the mold and get hard candy letters. They don't melt in the summer heat.

Do you have fruit that is about to go bad? This recipe will help you turn it into a muffin-cake type thing in no time. It is #vegetarian, but not vegan, on account of the eggs and yogurt; I have not tested this with dairy-free yogurt nor a functional egg substitute. I have tested the cornstarch-and-water egg substitute and the cake doesn't work well, but no egg substitutes beyond that. If you test dairy-free yogurt or find an egg substitute that works, give me a comment to let me know how it fares.

This cake works quite nicely as a sheet birthday cake (#birthdaycake), without the need to ice, as the fruit topping adds that extra delight that icing typically does. Tested at a 9 year old's birthday party to the happy smiles of all and the delight of parents that it only contains 1/2 cup of added sugar for the whole cake.