What happens when you realize you lost the piece of paper that you wrote your recipe on when you finally try to get your life together and finish any “I’ll come back to it later” blog post. Usually if this happens, I’d disregard the idea of blogging it, but this is an important post to finish because it’s dedicated to Leung and her 20th birthday.

Warning though: I actually lost the sticky note that I wrote the recipe on so this post is recipe-less. I made a classic vanilla angel food cake (because she’s an angel and she loves white) with a vegan buttercream. There isn’t a recipe out there for vegan angel food cake that doesn’t use Ener-G egg replacer yet, so I guess there’s work in store for both Leung and I to figure it out!

I’m such a terrible friend to be writing this 1 and a half month late, plus losing the recipe for this cake, sorry Leung, I plead for your forgiveness. I have no excuse cause I should have made time for this.

The day I made this cake was on a Saturday and I remember Leung and I went to Whole Foods for this cheese workshop offered by Dinner Party YVR since we were hosting a dinner ourselves this year.  After a couple nibbles of cheese, I went straight home to run some errands, to whole foods to buy flowers to decorate, and home to bake her the cake.

My vision was to bake her a “Fairy Cake” with a white interior and a really light lavender colour for the frosting cause lavender is Leung’s favourite colour. Artificial colouring isn’t in my kitchen repertoire, so I thawed out and extracted the juice of my frozen blackberries and added the juice into the frosting. The frosting turned out pale pink… oops. After slathering frosting between the two layers and over the entire cake, I decked it out with some baby’s breath I’d bought earlier to make it look fairy-like. I think it turned out very sophisticated and definitely screams Leung’s love for all things dainty and flowery. Add a Piglet or Winnie the Pooh figurine candle on there and we’d have her in cake form.

I just wanted to wish you the happiest of days every day of your 20th year here on this Earth, and let you know how much I appreciate you because it’s ridiculous how much you’ve helped me out at times I needed it most.You’re my compass when I’m lost, my anchor when I get tossed, and the right way when all I can do is wrong. I’m so grateful you are born on this day and proud to call you my bff. Thnx gurlfran. For hanging out with me under an hour’s notice,eating pizza after a gruesome exam, jamming out to country music with me, accepting my flatulence from beans, and bringing me joy. u da best. Go have the sassiest year of your life, you sass queen. Happy 20th, let’s go to reagal beagle and idarts colour & turnip.