let him eat cake!

So...yesterday was my wonderful Father's 59th Birthday.  Happy Birthday Dad!  Calvin and Henry and I came to Mom and Dad's (Nanny and Poppy's) house to visit because we knew that would really make Dad/Poppy's day :).

The day went by and was pretty uneventful aside from a few presents (a case of beer from Lake of Bays Brewing Company (http://lakeofbaysbrewing.ca/) from Me, Adam and the kids and a jacket and a pair of slippers from Mom, neither of which were suitable lol).

Mom and I thought his Birthday was passable but Dad had higher expections...a cake!
Mom purely had good intentions.  Since Dad had a heart attack over a year ago and has cholesterol concerns she thought it would be better not to make a cake since he likely wouldn't eat it anyhow! 

After Dad mentioned the lack of Birthday cake about seven times today (and a guilt trip...something about never going without a birthday cake in their 37 years of wedded bliss) we thought we'd better make a cake. 
We didn't have what we needed for a scratch cake so we had to throw some things together last minute before supper.  This is what we came up with:

 

Yes, it's Duncan Hines Devil's Food cake from a mix.  Not something either my Mom or I usually make (we're from scratch types) but it's what we had so we went with it. 
Now, since Dad has cholesterol concerns we decided to make a few concessions.  It called for three eggs and we put one whole egg and two whites.  It called for 1/2 cup of oil and we put 2 tablespoons of oil and a small jar of baby food prunes.  Yep!  Baby food prunes!  We weren't sure the cake would rise properly...but look!!

They looked normal!  And smelled SO good, of course.  But we weren't going to judge until we tasted them. 
The real issue was frosting.  We didn't have any icing sugar...so that wasn't helpful.  But, being the great host she is, Mom had some traditional lemon curd and devon cream in the fridge leftover from tarts she made for her sewing group earlier in the week!  We only had enough for one cake so the other one went into the freezer.  We cut one cake in half and put the lemon curd in the middle:

Terrible picture, but you get the idea.  YUM.  Made from seven fresh lemons!  Mom makes the best treats :).  Then it was time for the devon cream!  If this wasn't good enough for Dad then nothing was! 

Tadaaa!!  It's not fancy but WOW I couldn't wait to have some!  I won't say it was low calorie but it was definitely low fat!  And that's what was best for Dad :). 

Happy Birthday Dad/Poppy!!  We hope we have made up for yesterday's mistakes!
And, as if you even had to ask, it was SO yummy!  A success!  High five Mom!