May's cake choices all sounded lovely, but there was one that was looked exactly like what my daughter would want for her birthday party - the Lemon Lavender Blackberry Cake. Normally she's a chocolate girl, but the idea of that light purple cake gracing her party overrode any dreams of chocolate frosting. And then to seal my nomination for mom of the year, we found a kit at the party store that allowed us to turn any layer cake into an unicorn. The cake recipe was pretty straight-forward, and produced a moist cake with a light lemon taste. The instructions said to place whole blackberries into each pan of batter before you bake, so that's what I did. It made for a pretty cut, but we couldn't really taste much blackberry flavor. And even though I felt like I followed the directions for placing the blackberries, there were still pieces without very many. I used an entire container, but it seems like more would have been better in this case. The fro
