Bumpy Cake My All Time Favorite Birthday Treat

I was going to share a recipe, just as easy & tasty as My Hubby’s Home­made Pan­cakes or My Oven Baked Omelette, but then we had the above fea­tured cake for my birth­day. This is a Bumpy Cake. It is a fancier ver­sion of a sim­ply scrump­tious cake by Sanders. If you will meet some­one who had the Sanders expe­ri­ence as a kid they will rave about it.

The hold Sanders has over those who come into con­tact with it is not eas­ily explained. It’s the hold of child­hood mem­o­ries, like the taste of Grandma’s cook­ies, the smell of your Mother’s per­fume, or the feel of warped cush­ion of your Father’s chair. You just feel com­fort when you have it. Every­one in my fam­ily loves Sanders, they all (and by all, I mean the whole extended clan) tell tall tales of it’s wonder.

As a kid grow­ing up we always got a Sanders Bumpy Cake in the sum­mer.  With birth­days abound­ing Bumpy Cakes were eaten. In the hot heat of July you had to eat it fast before the choco­late started to melt, it was a deli­cious race against time.

Hav­ing one is a child­hood mem­ory for me that Hubby has tried to recre­ate every year. He is won­der­ful to do this for me because he doesn’t have the same attach­ment to Bumpy Cake the way I do. He is more into the Sanders hot fudge. For me though it’s the reminder of a fam­ily tra­di­tion that is com­fort­ing. But this year he was not able to get a Sander’s cake.

How­ever, he was able to get a Bumpy Cake for me. This cake, I have pic­tured here, is from a local mar­ket. It was absolutely amaz­ing. It was a deca­dent ver­sion of the Sanders Orig­i­nal. The inside had a thick layer of but­ter cream frost­ing & the top is a rich choco­late ganache. The choco­late cake was very moist & over­all for as rich as the cake was it was not over­pow­er­ing. I am enjoy­ing the last piece as I write this.

Now I know I just raved about Sanders as trans­port­ing me back in time. And it’s true that this cake wasn’t the exact same as what I had as a kid but I real­ized that I’m cre­at­ing new mem­o­ries rooted in the past. Because Mr. J said “Mommy, we have one of these every year. It’s our tradition.”

For him it wasn’t Sanders that was impor­tant & I real­ized it wasn’t for me either (even though I DO love those cakes). But it was the fam­ily tra­di­tions and mem­o­ries that were made around the table that mat­tered most. And then I got to explain to him why I always have a Bumpy Cake. Pass­ing on mem­o­ries from my child­hood to my own chil­dren while mak­ing new ones around our table.  Maybe it won’t always be the exact same but it will be in spirit.

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