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Kitchen Quarantine, Day 21, Cake and Frosting

Three weeks in; Saturday I had no energy for cooking, so it was tuna sandwiches for dinner.  Any port in the storm.  I asked Dr. C. what he'd like for dinner on Sunday, and he said chili, so not having much interest in that, I decided what I really needed was cake and frosting.  Our son, Ryan was coming for dinner, so I decided to make the cake that I make for his birthday.  This is a great recipe from Tate's Bake Shop's cookbook.  The frosting is the key, it's a recipe that was in an old food processor cookbook from Abby Mandel who, in the 70's made the Cuisinart food processor the go-to piece of equipment if you could...

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