This past weekend I had the great pleasure to attend a friend’s annual family cookout.  It’s a great event with great people.  I knew well in advance of the weekend that I wanted to make this recipe.  The cake part was easy enough to make with no problem.  The icing, on the other hand, was a hurdle that I wasn’t able to overcome until after the cookout.  The first two attempts I followed the recipe that accompanied the cake but I just could not get the frosting to firm up past a sloshy, sugary soup no matter how much sugar I added.  For my third and final attempt, I made a traditional butter cream frosting, swapping out the vanilla extract with lemon juice and added a few drops of food coloring for that perfect pink tint.  The end results were absolutely perfect for a summertime cookout.