Birthday.

Shortly after school started we celebrated my dad's birthday.

My dad wanted either a lemon cake or a strawberry cake.

I thought I would be super creative and make a checkerboard cake using both flavors.

Only problem with that is that I don't have the special pans that most people use.

So I got on the internet and found this website.

I must have done something wrong because the outside ring of the top layer completely fell apart.  It was very tragic.  I cut into it and took a picture before scrapping the whole thing.

It really does look like a checkerboard!  If only it had worked!  Grrr.

So we stuck with our old standby, the 9 x 13 pan, and started over.

The second time was the charm in this case.  It turned out great!