Submitted by Donald Peterson, Wisconsin
The events with the chocolate cake with Kahlua began in July 2006. My wife Lorraine and I were conversing with Lil and Ola, and the subject of baking came up. I mentioned a sour cream coffee cake, and Lil mentioned a recipe from Elroy.
It sounded good, so I asked Lil to send it to me. It arrived on the following Tuesday.
The next week, I made the cake—seven ingredients in a Bundt pan. The cake looked good, but the Zerbe Reunion was imminent, so into the refrigerator it went. Our daughter Karly came back early, and when we arrived home a day later, there was about one-fourth missing. Lorraine’s sister, Emma, and Emma’s daughter, Wendy, were with us for several days before returning to Phoenix and so was our daughter Krista, and we all had a piece of cake….