Summer Birthdays: Buttermilk Cake with Blueberry Cream Cheese Icing

To everyone who has a birthday this year: Let them eat cake!

I modestly claim that this is the very best birthday cake ever. I know! It’s subjective. I can’t help myself. Let’s talk about cake, yum!

The only ‘homemade’ cakes we ate at our house when I was growing up came out of a box, but at least we made a half-hearted effort. We made the icing from the recipe on the back of the Domino’s Powdered Sugar box: One box of powdered sugar, two sticks of butter, three tablespoons of milk, and vanilla extract. It was sweeeet! And to be honest, I was always more a fan of the cake than the icing, but that cake still said I love you way more than a cake purchased at the local supermarket.

My days at a girls’ summer camp in New Hampshire make me forever nostalgic about layer cakes. The cooks at the camp, Lillian and Henry Johnson, were beloved by the campers, but you wouldn’t dream of messing with Lillian. Lillian and Hen…