1 post from February 2008

It's a Happy Birthday in a Picture Perfect World

A couple from work asked us to create a birthday cake for one of their friends. All they could tell me about this person was that he liked chocolate cake, computers, and MC Chris. ( I had no idea who the hell that was. I don't know how I would survive without the internet.) With much futzing around, I finally decided to use the cover of MC Chris's 2006 album: "dungeon master of ceremonies." The frosting is a pale yellow because of the butter and the Baileys; besides, I don't care for plain white backgrounds on cakes unless it fits the theme or image. My favorite part is the picture-perfect world paraphrase from his song "Townie."  "I roll back my eyes, clear my mind and proceed, paint a picture-perfect world called the house of MC."   One of the reasons I liked it is because it feeds the inner geek, as it looks like it was a reference to the "House of M" from an eight-part Marvel comic cross-over series where Scarlet Witch created a perfect world for herself and the rest of the superheroes.  


From this angle, the mistakes I made with the food grade paint aren't as noticeable. 

This was one of those times where I was there to see the expression on someone's face when they saw their cake for the first time.  I tried to record it, but forgot to press the record button (it's a new camera and I'd only used it once before--that's my excuse).  It was worth making this cake as a gift.  Here was a reserved guy from work that I didn't know, and when he opened up the box with the cake, he had a huge smile on his face and gave me a big hug.  Then he took a bunch of photos before he'd let anyone eat it.  I have to admit that it's one of my favorites too.

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