Topped with a cherry-filled heart, Barbara’s birthday cake was a family legacy recipe.
ANOTHER ISLAND BIRTHDAY for my lovely wife, Barbara. We need not be so crass as to talk numbers, but she is officially on Medicare as of today. It’s a happy milestone.
Daughter Lillian came on the water taxi for the weekend and helped create a birthday cake using Grandma Cantwell’s best-ever chocolate cake recipe, which Barbara has preserved hand-written in my late mother’s lovely old-fashioned perfect penmanship.
The mother-daughter baking wizards also concocted a luscious vegan buttercream frosting, which Lil applied with a piping bag and her own panache, mixing in sliced maraschino cherries and crushed walnuts between the layers as grandma always did.
It felt a bit like my dear old mother was at the party, smiling in the background. 
Using her grandmother’s hand-written recipe, daughter Lillian helped create a luscious birthday cake.
Cantwell's Reef 
Happy birthday, Barbara!
From: Cantwell’s Reef Reply-To: Cantwell’s Reef Date: Monday, February 10, 2020 at 5:13 PM To: Subject: [New post] A perfect cake for a perfect birthday
Brian J. Cantwell posted: “Topped with a cherry-filled heart, Barbara’s birthday cake was a family legacy recipe. ANOTHER ISLAND BIRTHDAY for my lovely wife, Barbara. We need not be so crass as to talk numbers, but she is officially on Medicare as of today. It’s a happy milestone.”
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Happy Birthday, Barbara. We now live in Port Orchard. Hope to connect.
Dave and Jill Kern
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Great to hear your news and would love to connect again, Dave and Jill! Come on up to Lopez this summer and we’ll take you for a boat picnic on the ’57 runabout.
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Happy Birthday, Barbara! 🎂
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That is a very beautiful tempting cake send me the recipe Barbara love you guys
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We’ll email the recipe!
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