Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

I am NOT normally an eat-the-frosting-off-the-cake sort of person (especially if it’s store-bought, because ewww.) My oldest, however, requested a pumpkin poke cake for her birthday last month, and the whipped cream frosting sweetened with brown sugar and laced with vanilla–I could have eaten that with a spoon. (I may have actually done so a little bit…) I looked through scores of recipes before I found this version of Pumpkin Poke Cake, because that same oldest daughter doesn’t like cream cheese and wanted a sweetened condensed milk filling instead of a caramel one–AND doesn’t care for spice cake mix. (DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY RECIPES THAT DISQUALIFIES?!) I pretty much followed the directions, too, although I added basically the whole can of sweetened condensed milk and preferred it that way (those who are hyper-sensitive to texture might not). I also, of course, would have preferred caramel drizzle and cream cheese frosting; my daughter, however, loved it, and none of us thought it was a hardship to eat.

Out of curiosity, what would you prefer?