One of my favorite things growing up was Thanksgiving Day…not just because of the incredible food and family time, but because my birthday is in November and we always celebrated it on Thanksgiving. Now normally that meant birthday pumpkin pie, which I was (and still am) ALL about…but one year I thought I’d mix it up and asked my mom for a 3-tier funfetti cake. Somehow she pulled it off and totally wowed me…all those rainbow colored white chocolate chips 😍 I didn’t even know we had 3 different sized pans! That year in particular, the news had been warning us about the possibility that we would feel significant aftershocks from an earthquake on December 3. It was kind of a big deal, since in southern Ohio we didn’t often have to deal with earthquakes. One of the times I went to the counter to admire my cake, I was shocked to see it leaning severely to the right, having gotten too warm from the heat of the oven. My Mom said, “the earthquake came early.” I should have taken that as an early warning that in baking, as in life, things don’t always go according to plan!