I am a Baha'i, and these past four days my family and I have been celebrating Ayyam-i-Ha. It's a time of cheer, celebration, acts of generosity, service, and gift giving in preparation for our Fasting period before the Baha'i New Year. If you want to learn more about it you can click here. But basically this weekend I made my father his favorite cake as a gift. He's a pretty healthy guy, but he has a major sweet tooth when it comes to certain foods.

My husband and I got married just over a year and a half ago. As a wedding gift we received everything under the sun in terms of kitchenware. One of my favorite pieces was a glass cake stand. To my dismay, this past weekend, I realized it had been chipped in our cupboard. NO WORRIES! The glass top happened to fit PERFECTLY over our Cornflower Lace Service Plate, which I do think makes a lovely cake plate in and of itself.

This is actually my mother's recipe so it should be labeled "Mama K's 2 Egg Cake" but since it's my father's favorite I'm renaming it "Papa K's 2 Egg Cake". I doubled the recipe to make a two layer cake, so really it should be called "Papa K's 4 Egg Cake." But we'll stick with 2.

The frosting is a simple butter cream with almond extract and chopped walnuts. I made about a pound of frosting. This is supposed to be an indulgent cake, and this frosting is my favorite! It's probably too much frosting for most people, but it seemed to come out perfectly fine; evident by the fact that my father ate about half of the cake by the end of the day on his own.

Cream the butter.

Add a tsp of almond and vanilla extract as well as a box of powdered sugar (gradually). Use a little bit of milk if it's too firm.

<divstyle="text-align: center !important;">Hand mix in the chopped walnuts. The more the better in my book, but it depends on how much you like walnuts.

Frost the first layer of cake.

Then, place the second layer on top and frost the sides as low as you'd like to go. My mother usually just frosts the top, but I decided I wanted less cake to show, plus I had a pound of frosting and I didn't want it to go to waste.

YUM! Ready to go to Papa K's!
Now, make your own!
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