McDonald's at Midnight

Mr. Steady and The Reader both love to play the Monopoly game at McDonald's.  The Reader has been waiting for the new game to start since mid-summer.  So when he asked Mr. Steady to wake him up at midnight to take him to McDonald's because he wanted to be "among the first to play" we giggled.  But then we thought, "why not?"  It's fun to yes to odd requests sometimes.

Mr. Steady woke The Reader up at midnight....twice.  He is such a hard sleeper!  They headed to the store closest to us but they weren't handing out pieces yet.  So Mr. Steady went to find another store that was open!  I would have said "sorry, Charlie" and headed home!

 The lobby was closed so he posed for a picture outside the window - ha!

 How fun to go to McDonald's in your pajamas!

 He looks pretty pleased - not sure if it's because of the pieces he got or his hash brown & OJ!

Gooey Caramel Cake

The Reader dislikes chocolate about as much as The Thinker and I like it.  He will eat it but prefers caramel or vanilla over chocolate.  So for his birthday he requested a "vanilla cake with caramel sauce drizzled over it and vanilla icing".  Antithesis of chocolate?  So I found this pin and thought it would suit him well.

I don't have round cake pans (which you will see why in a future blog post) so I used one 9x13 and one 8x8 square.  I cut the 9x13 in half and stacked them all together.  The cake is really super moist and you stack it while it's still hot which made for a mess stacking them.  So it's not so pretty (click on the link above and see how pretty the original cake was).  But the end result?  Even this self-proclaimed choco-holic was enamored with it.

I had to add about double the amount of powdered sugar to the frosting to get it to spreading consistency, maybe I didn't follow the directions carefully and missed something, not sure.

Try this cake very soon, you will not be sorry.