This week I make that black forest cake I mentioned a while ago. This will be the first time in a while that I use real butter rather than substituting margarine (because I want to do it right), and we had to go out to buy 2 8″ cake pans. (For some reason, we only had a square pan – I guess it’s been a long time since I’ve actually made a traditional cake – although I’ve made any number of other types of dessert.)

It was going to happen last week, but didn’t for various reasons. This week’s my birthday, so perhaps it’s more appropriate this way anyway.