November 26th is National Cake Day, which means cake for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It’s the rules, you’re just not celebrating the holiday effectively if you toss in any other food. When I first saw that cake day was coming up, I kept thinking about Marie Antoinette’s famous quote, “Let them eat cake!” {Did you know this was her response when she found out the peasants had no bread to eat during the height of a famine?} Wouldn’t you love to go back in time and just witness that statement? Was it taken out of context or was she really that ignorant? Okay, I digress…let’s get back to actually eating cake in a time of plenty, that’s a much more comfortable topic.
Before you go out celebrating cake day with reckless abandon, I thought I’d give you a couple of my favorite recipes to consider:
The Best Chocolate Cake on the Planet Earth
Upside Down Pear-Gingerbread Cake
My Favorite Carrot Cake of All Time
Single Serving Microwave Chocolate Cake
Seriously, with so many choices, it really should be extended to cake week, don’t you think?
Now what are you waiting for? Get out there and celebrate!
~Mavis
Suzy says
Oh no! We didn’t know & we’re eating pie!
Kayla says
The link for the Lemon Pudding cake is the wrong link. I had to look it up myself–horror! I admit that I am going to try at least two of these or more in the next few days. Mmmm cake.
Leslie says
“the quote would have been highly uncharacteristic of Marie-Antoinette, an intelligent woman who donated generously to charitable causes”
from http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let-them-eat-cake
I just had to know! Faith in humanity restored
Lilypad says
Historians believe that Marie Antoinette didn’t really say that. http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let-them-eat-cake
I feel like I must defend her because she was born an Austrian archduchess and forced by her mother, Empress Maria Theresa, ruler of the Hapsburg Empire, to marry the French heir purely for political reasons. I always thought her life was incredibly sad. (History nerd here.)
As for cake, I’m all for it!!
Helen in Idaho says
Let’s make it National Cake Week. I didn’t know and was at friend’s house yesterda with 7 kinds of pie left there from Thanksgiving. She wanted to make turkey soup, I said forget that. Dh and I would eat 3 kinds of pie, each, while there frokm 2:30-8:30.
So now an excuse to eat cake this week, just when I thought I should go slow this week.