Birthday Prep

Luke turns the big 27 tomorrow. So...being the wonderful wife I am :) I asked him what cake he would like me to bake for his birthday. He suggest caramel cake! I've never made caramel cake before, so...let's hope this works out. His mother sent over her recipe for a delicious, super unhealthy pound cake: and the recipe for the caramel topping. So...I sure hope I can pull this off. I have the cake currently cooking and should know the outcome soon. I don't plan on making the icing until tomorrow right before we eat it. Leave it to Luke to ask for something that requires me to go buy a kitchen gadget I have yet to own. What gadget you ask?? A candy thermometer! I went to Wal-Mart in hopes of finding the gadget and came up short due to a stock out. Since I live in a town seriously lacking stores I became worried that a 1 hour trip to Roswell or Hobbs might be necessary. Luckily, I checked our local grocery store and came up successful. So...here are the lovely recipes (let me know if you can't read them and would like for me to stop being lazy and actually type them out). Tomorrow I will post pics of the hopefully lovely cake and let you guys know how it taste!