So after talking about cooking for family in my last post, I thought I would share a recipe that I made for a recent early morning birthday party where there were lots of young families. My good friend Ana's daughter Karolina just turned two years old (yesterday actually!) and we celebrated her birthday at the park this past Sunday. The skies were a beautiful blue, and the weather was perfect for all the little ones to run around and play while the adults sampled a fantastic spread of brunch-type foods, including chocolate filled crescent rolls, ham and spinach quiche, blueberry scones, and this bacon and blue cheese cake.
If you were worried, this "cake" was not the one meant for the birthday girl. I hope it is clear that this cake is squarely planted in the realm of adult-food, and not exactly the type of fare that a two-year old wants to dig her cute, chubby little fingers into. (And for those curious minds out there, I'll tell you that the actual birthday cake was really awesome; it was rich chocolate cake with blue frosting and a Nemo-esque underwater scene made with gummy fish, sharks, and octopus. Little Karolina was fearless as she reached right in and grabbed the octopus by the tentacles and devoured it. I'd like to think that if someone made me a cake like that, I would do the same.)
This cake is definitely adult-food because it has all these ingredients here:
Oh no, your eyes are not deceiving you. This cake has eggs, flour, blue cheese, parmesan cheese, green onions, and bacon. BACON. I know that as you read through this little list you got pretty excited, but I probably could have just told you that it had bacon and you would have been sold. I can say that I definitely was, because ever since reading The Sweet Life in Paris
by David Lebovitz, I have been looking for an excuse to make this cake. Lucky for me Karolina's early morning birthday party provided me with the perfect opportunity. 
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