I'm twenty-four and the bloom of youth is gone

My parents came down for my birthday the weekend before last, and Ryan got an ice cream cake from the Ben & Jerry's a block away. To put it kindly, the cake was a disgraceful mess that all cakes, everywhere, should be embarrassed of. It was supposed to be a square cake with blue icing and fluffy frosting clouds on it, and it was supposed to have my name on it. Instead, it was all white with blobs of white on it and my name misspelled in white frosting. Oh, and it was liquid in the center. Ryan called up the store and calmly asked them to remake the cake and refund us while I shrieked about how EVERYTHING IS RUINED FOREVER in the background.

In their defense, the store did remake the cake. In my defense, it was still horrible and they should be stripped of all cake-making supplies, including ice cream and whatever utensils they used to make those tumorous clouds.

I did still manage to have a Happy B-DAY ANNiE, though, because it tasted okay. My mom and Ryan helped me eat as much as possible, but the cake was partially composed of a brownie so dark and dense that light itself could not escape its surface, so we didn't get far.

This past weekend -- my actual birthday weekend -- Ryan got me an enormous stack of books and we made this cake. It cost six dollars to make and looks eleven times better.

When I was five, my mother made me a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and M&Ms on it in a metal cake pan that was identical to a metal pan the dog drank out of. Even though I could clearly see the dog's dish AND the cake pan at the same time, I was convinced my mother made my cake in the dog's bowl. I told all my party guests this and then none of them wanted to eat the cake. My mother was bitter about this for a long time.

Comments

[LovelyAnomaly]

Woow. You could submit that cake to cakewrecks.com.

Happy belated birthday!

[Em]

Happy belated birthday! :)

[Lucy]

Anyone who has a birthday in April is automatically a blog read for me.

Aside from that--I do enjoy your blog. Keep an eye out...I just might link you :)

[Emily Caswell]

OMG is that first cake for real?? LOL gotta love D-town cake shops hahah Happy belated b-day :)