Back To The Future Day!

• Posted on October 21, 2015
• by Jamie Stahl
• in Homemade
• 2 Comments.

Happy Back To The Future Day!

Today is Wednesday October 21, 2015 and at 4:29pm pst, Marty McFly, Dr, Emmett Brown, and Jennifer Parker arrived in Hill Valley, California via a flying DeLorean.  Thirty years ago, the first Back To The Future film came out and in order to celebrate the anniversary, the world has McFlipped Out!  Some of the focus of today is the fact that there will no longer be a “future” in the franchise and a lot of people have been discussing what the second film predicted would be normal life in 2015.  Others are focusing on the trilogy as a whole.  Regardless of which movie you like best or year you were born, unless you are living under a rock, you have probably heard at least once that today is Back To The Future Day.

I thought it would be a fun way of commemorating the event by baking a cake from the original film.  In the beginning of the movie, in 1985, the McFly family is having dinner and all of the dysfunction between everyone is clearly visible.  Lorraine (Marty’s mother) casually throws a homemade cake onto the table to let her family know that their Uncle Joey won’t be coming home from prison, so everyone can just help themselves to the wasted “welcome home” cake.  It doesn’t seem like a very important scene, but it foreshadows some familial relationships that Marty encounters in 1955.

“Uncle Jailbird Joey” Cake 

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9in x 13in cake pan

Pour contents of cake mix into large mixing bowl

Add in eggs, oil, and water

Mix ingredients until wet

Beat with mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes

Pour cake mix into pan and put it in the oven for 34-38 minutes

Poke the inside with a toothpick to make sure it is completely cooked. Remove from oven and let cool 10-15 minutes

Once the cake is cooled, frost it with white frosting and use black icing to draw a “jail cell”

fill in the background of the jail cell with blue icing

Using red icing, write “Welcome Home” on top and “Uncle Joey” on the bottom of the cake

Draw in “Jailbird” using black, blue, and yellow icing.

Enjoy!

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