Takes the Cake

The last thing I thought I would be posting about again was cakes. However, with the success of the my previous creations came another gig, this time for a 9-year-old girl's spa-themed birthday party.


This is what is known as a "piñata cake", which involved having a speckled, M&M-covered, angel food cake underneath a hard chocolate shell. To go with the theme, the shell became a mud mask of sorts, complete with cucumber eye coverings (watermelon candy), a breathing hole for the mouth (toasted marshmallow teeth with licorice lips), luxurious, spa-treated hair (gummy worms), and a candy necklace (candy necklace).

I had pretty much assumed that they would "eat it up", as it were, but it was quite another thing to witness these innocent little girls crack open the face with a big hammer and cut it to pieces using a large knife, all the while violently screaming "HIT IT IN THE FOREHEAD!" and "STAB IT IN THE NOSE!"

However, if that sounds like fun to you, and as it is starting to become an unstoppable trend, please feel free to email me to have your own memorable custom birthday cake made and delivered to your party anywhere in the lower mainland of Vancouver, BC. My wife makes the really good actual cake part of the cake, and I'm really good at buying candy, so its a melt-in-your-mouth match made in heaven. And before anyone asks, no, we won't make erotic cakes...

Hamburger Hamlet

In this climactic scene, Wendy, shaken by the departure of her boyfriend Ronald and the death of her father Arby, commits suicide. Meanwhile Ronald, as encouraged by the ghost of the murdered Burger King, avenges his own father by killing both Wendy's brother Jack and his uncle Long John Silver, while in turn being fatally wounded by Jack in the process.

The Dairy Queen, accidentally drinking a poison which was originally intended for her own son's demise, perishes as well. In the end, most of the subjects of White Castle lay slain, including Ronald's school friends, Denny and Baskin Robbins, who are executed as spies.

We are left with only Ronald's dearest friend, Little Caesar, to relate the story and relive the memory of his time in the graveyard, where the tragic hero Ronald famously pondered life over the skull of poor Carl's Jr.

Let Them Eat Cakes

Both my brother and sister recently celebrated their birthdays, and I made them fancy cakes.

My bro Spence got a video iPod for his birthday, so he got these three iPod cakes:

That's the show Lost playing on the left one, the Gorillaz album playing in the middle, and the U2 Original of the Species video on the last. The likeness of Bono is particularly striking...

Meanwhile, my sis Jenna had a pirate birthday party. Did I mention she was turning 22? Anyway, a pirate themed birthday obviously deserves a pirate ship cake:

Overall, the cake was tasty, but it was details like the Pull-and-Peel rails, the Loonie dubloons, the Reisen cannons and the chocolate-covered espresso bean cannonballs that really made it yaarrrrd to resist.

What did they think of their personalized cakes? I think the photos speak for themselves...



Actually, the photos only say one thing really: dorks.