Real quick..before he gets home

I came home a little early to make him a chocolate cake. Chocolate because its my...his favorite.

For me, this is more adventurous than any mountain bike ride.
and scarier.

Of course, I am not making it from scratch. I'm using Duncan Hines Extra Moist Chocolate. And, to make up for my non-scratchedness, I just poured tons of liquor into the batter. I couldn't figure out which would taste batter: rum, Grand Marnier, or Bonny Doon Framboise. So I dumped all three in there. Yum.

They really need to write the instructions on those cake boxes in a little more detail too. And some pictures too. Not pictures of an egg, because I know what an egg is, but pictures of what the thing should look like when you pour it into a pan. Because somehow, I was supposed to have enough for two 8 inch pans and I only had enough for one.

Either I poured waaaay too much in that one pan (how much does really liquored up chocolate cake rise anyway? They should tell us this on the box) or I tasted just a wee bit more than I thought I did.

And how do I know when its done? Something about a toothpick. I better go check.