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The Birthday Photos

Recipe for a Birthday Cake

4 ounces unsweetend chocolate, chopped coarsely

1/3 cup cocoa

1 cup boiling water

1 cup butter

2 1/4 cups sugar

3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 1/4 cups all purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup (soy) milk

8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, chopped

1/4 cup cocoa

3/4 cup (soy) milk

1/2 cup butter

3 cups confectioners sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

6 ounces cream cheese

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter two 9 inch cake pans. Combine chopped chocolate and cocoa. Pour boiling water over mixture. Stir to melt. Cool slightly. Cream butter. Beat in sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time. Beat in vanilla and melted chocolale. Sift flour with baking powder and baking soda. Add to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Mix ingredients only until blended. Divide batter between pans. Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until centre springs back when lightly pressed. Allow to cool 10 minutes. Invert onto cooling racks.

To prepare icing, place chocolate, cocoa, milk, and butter in top of double boiler. Heat gently over simmering water just until chocolate melts. Mixture should be smooth. Cool slightly. Beat in icing sugar and vanilla. Chill until spreadable. Combine 1/2 cup of the icing with the cream cheese. Beat until smooth. Reserve for the decoration. Using the dark icing, sandwich the two layers of cake together. Frost the top and the sides. Decorate as desired with the cream cheese chocolate frosting.

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Some of Molly's Favourite Beaches

It is fun to eat birthday cake at the beach. Yes.

California:

Bean Hollow State Beach.

The beach before Bean Hollow (Playa des Frijoles) with the neat tidepools.

Grey Whale Beach.

The secret beach marked by that funny piece of driftwood, where you have to walk for about a mile over the dunes before you actually get to the water.

Pescadero State Beach.

Point Reyes.

Surf.

That beach south of the Pigeon Point Lighthouse where there is lots of poison oak on the cliff, but you can find beautiful shells.

Right underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, with the naked gay boys.

Encinitas.

A little beach just north of Malibu.

Not California:

Varadero, Cuba.

Tulum, Mexico.

Wherever it was I camped in Baja. Miller's Landing, yes, that's it.

Dyer's Bay, Ontario.

Southampton, Ontario.

Lion's Head, Ontario.

Parry Sound, Ontario.

Port Dover, Ontario.

Long Point, Ontario.

Lake Rosseau, Ontario.

This place north of Port Huron, Michigan.

St. Joseph, Michigan.