Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all who celebrate! We are honoring Mom with a lovely graham cracker cake. Specifically, this barely-legible one:

Okay, obviously I didn't make the cake this year, otherwise how would I post it so early in the day? But on a previous Mother's Day, I brought over a graham cracker cake made from my great-grandmother's recipe. It's hard to argue with a really good cake with a neat story behind it.

This year, I decided not to do cake layers because we didn't have many people coming over to eat it. But I do think the lemon filling is a crucial part of making this cake truly special. So this year, we can be thankful for mothers and for working freezers!

It almost looks like an art gallery installation, doesn't it?

The real achievement was making enough space in the freezer to let an entire cutting board lay flat.

I did have to ice the cake quickly lest the lemon layer thaw out before I had it covered-- but our blessedly working freezer made it easy.

As proof of how good the cake is, here is how little remained after one afternoon.Not also the lemon filling, oozing tantalizingly out from under the icing that sits perfectly on top!

So, Happy Mother's Day! If I'm being honest, this year's homemade present will have to wait until the next time I visit (but the phone call's happening today, of course!). And...

No sentimental mush,
May your john always flush!