Baking Queen

I think one of my mom's love languages is baking. Especially baking cakes. She loves any opportunity to whip up something sumptuous, and no one ever complains! The white and orange cake is the famous three-layer orange marmalade cake described so much in Jan Karon's Mitford books. It was wonderful! My mom made it for when our pastor's family (all 11 of them!) came over on New Year's Eve. The decadent chocolate cake is one she made today. The occasion? Lori and Chris are moving! They've been moving little by little to the new house near us, but this evening they'll actually move themselves into it. As soon as my mom knew, she planned what to take over for dinner and promptly made this cake. Isn't she sweet? (No pun intended.) Lori the chocolate-lover should be rather pleased.