cimorene

i have checkerboard cake and blackcurrant tea.

last night at the party, a scene for your edification.

lil: you all have to see my birthday cake. it's so great! show them, mommy.
friends: it's pink.
lil: guess what kind of cake it is!
friends: lemon. chocolate. vanilla.
mom: ::cuts the first slice::
sarah, astutely: it's a checkerboard cake.
lillian, proudly: i frosted it. well, mom helped.
mom: that's right. there's chocolate frosting in between the layers...
lil: see the flower?
jordan: did you do the flower?
mom, serving cake: the colored icing, though, that's just a plain buttercream frosting, and that was lillian's choice, not what i would have chosen for this cake, but it's lillian's birthday...