
My favorite birthday cake of all time has got to be yellow cake with chocolate frosting. I’m not much of a cake person in general, but I’ll make an exception every year for my brithday with this one: the good, old fashioned, my-mother-started-making-it-for-my-birthday-when-I-was-four-and-never-stopped-because-I-wouldn’t-let her, Betty Crocker mix. But how to survive with all the dairy in the mix? It’s a box of absolute doom for my body, and without fail, I suffer for my weak willpower after. So this year, I chose this Valentine’s Day/Lunar New Year weekend to test...