If I can offer you one piece of party planning advice to you it would be this - do NOT host a party while jet lagged.🫥 Even though you may feel like your body is adjusted and your mind is clear - take if from me - it's not!🤣🤪 The kids used our house to host a birthday party for our sweet 1 year old granddaughter last weekend and I actually felt pretty good considering that I had returned from 24 hours of traveling just 2 days prior. Key word - felt.😂 I felt fine and I looked okay but my brain was definitely not engaged.🙃 The kids did all of the shopping, the cooking and decorating for the party. My only job was to provide a smash cake and a batch of cinnamon rolls. Easy enough - right?? They took care of all the leg work - I got to sit back and enjoy.  I often joke that I could bake a cake in my sleep and last weekend - I'm pretty sure I actually did some sleep-baking.😅 With no time to spare, I arrived home after my long flight on Thursday night and I immediately launched into baking autopilot.🧑🏻🍳 I started by baking the cinnamon rolls and the smash cake and then I went right into making a 2 tier birthday cake for the party guests.🎂 This 40 serving cake was NOT in the plan but somehow in my fatigued brain fog state - I was certain that I was baking a dessert that I had already committed to making. 🤷🏻♀️ It wasn't until after the cake was fully baked, assembled and decorated that I realized that we had decided not to make a cake for the guests.🤣 Oh well, a little extra cake at a party never hurt anyone.🍰 What does hurt is being so jet lagged that I forgot to serve the 5 dozen cookies that I had baked and stored in my freezer before I left for vacation.🤦🏻♀️ To make things worse - I didn't even realize that I had forgotten about the cookies until 4 days after the party! The jet lag is real people. My brain is definitely not firing all all cylinders yet.😜 Anyone need 60 Silly Goose cookies??🤣  Vanilla Cake 3 and 2/3 cups cake flour 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoon baking soda 1 and 1/2 cups butter, softened 2 cups sugar 3 large eggs + 2 additional egg whites, room temperature 1 Tablespoon vanilla 1 and 1/2 cups buttermilk, room temperature
 Bake 23-27 minutes at 350.  Fill with buttercream frosting.  There are lots of vanilla cake recipes out there so if you're looking for a new homemade vanilla cake that almost as easy as a box mix - this is the recipe for you. Save it for another day and subscribe to my blog to get the recipes delivered to your inbox.
Ciao!
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