BTB: The Cake: Harv's folk primitive year

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The Cake: Harv's folk primitive year Posted: 05 Mar 2011 12:07 PM PST Half sheet cake for Harv! This may be my favorite cake ever, and what a happy accident! I had planned an elaborate, gold-flake carrot cake from an artisan bakery. But then another boarder brought a carrot cake for her mare's birthday last week. I ate it all weekend, till I was tired of carrot cake (albeit temporarily). Others probably were too. The artisan shop offered a few other flavors but not anything to Harv's liking. Thursday morning at 10am I realized I needed to act, so I called Connie's Cakes (she did Harv's 20th birthday cake). Her cake portfolio included some horse-themed cakes and I asked her to whip something up for a bay horse and a red barn. Friday afternoon it was ready. Love the 3-D effect Almost a quarter century! I appreciate that Connie even agreed to do this on short notice, and I think the result is charming--like a folk primitive, don't you think? I just love the grass tufts, the clouds, and the little road. I'm not sure you can tell here, but this cake has very unfolkish sparkles :-).  Connie probably envisioned a child's birthday party as she was working. When I talk to non-horse people, they sometimes ask me "how long does a horse live?" It's an uncomfortable question, both because I don't really know the answer, and because I don't like to think about it. Recently it occurred to me that the only response to that question is, "Every day is a gift." The average lifespan of a horse doesn't matter. Too much can happen. Every day is a gift that Harv gives.

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