The Cake.

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[scribblesnbits]

So when do we get to see the other picture of the demon cake? You know, the one with the creepy face of Satan that SO wasn't visible until the pictures were developed and then everybody gasped and you get to go on a show with bad lighting and creepy music and they only air them on Halloween. Yeah, THAT picture.

Seriously, though, the cake looks awesome! I'll bet Henry and all his friends were so impressed!

[Dreadmouse]

It does look AMAZING. I'm not saying that makes it worth all the anguish, you understand, but it does look fantastic.

[Nancy]

Bravo! Blame the hot humid ick weather for the Great Melt-Off (and now as a special bonus, some blustery, gray, torrential rain days). The cake, albeit briefly, looked divine; luckily, all Henry will likely remember is that his mom made the bestest bluest Star Wars cake ever.

[cagey]

You should NOT have shown us the cake! It looks amazing, thus negating the incredibly hilarious post about your supposedly "pathetic" cake. You just outted yourself as a blogger who exaggerates for the sake of Interesting Blog Posting.

You big faker! :-)

[alice]

I said it looked good right out of the refrigerator! Read it again!

I should have taken a picture when it began to melt, but I was too weak with horror.

[Em]

Well, it doesn't LOOK possessed but I guess nothing ever does.

[debl]

I want confirmation from those that were there that the cake was actually brick-esque as you claim, because I don't believe it. This cake looks lovely. Speak up, party people!

[LetterB]

Cake and demonic frosting aside, I am deeply impressed with the gel icing work. That stuff has reduced me to tears so many times that I can't even look at it in the grocery store without shaking my fist. Amazing.

[khrica]

OK, I almost peed on myself, in my office when I read this. Despite your baking handicap it looks very beautiful. A box of cake mix and a container of PREMADE frosting still say "LOVE" to me. Henry is a very lucky little guy!!!

Happy Birthday Henry!!!! (Late)

[nazila]

Very lovely!

Is there any left?

nm

[S-Way (a party guest)]

I just want to point out that R2-D2's eye is a BLUEBERRY. That's a brilliant stroke of ingenuity right there. The blueberry was dark blue AND robot-eye-shaped AND edible! It was a nice touch.

The cake was a little heavy, but it was homemade, and that always increases the yumminess. I still ate my whole piece (except for a bit of the frosting, but I never eat all my frosting, even when it hasn't been sugar-boosted.)

[TB]

Thanks for posting a photo. I have an eerily similar story involving a carrot cake. It tasted like it was supposed to, but each piece weighed at least a pound. I think I was supposed to sift the flour or something.

[TitanKT]

BTW, I can't resist the opportunity here to point out the suffocating amount of self-imposed pressure we all tend to put on ourselves as mothers. Hey, I do it, too... almost every mother I know does it. Where did we get this? (Store-bought cake, hell yeah!)

Therapists now specialize in "maternal over-achievement related anxiety disorder," you know?!

[Erin]

The trick is to photograph him and the cake together. Then he will develop a permanent memory of the cake, or at least of the photo of him with the cake. Although this may sound manipulative, or like an artificial cultivation of memories, I think it's actually doing him a favor. It's no different from being told the story of your birth over and over.

There is a photo of me as a small child next to a birthday cake shaped like a Muppets character, and it's the only cake I remember. But dang, the lengths my (single) mom must have gone to to arrange for that thing.

[Wicked Stepmom]

Congrats! Us psycho-baking-Moms have to stick together - I can totally relate to your experience and GOOD FOR YOU for sticking it out. For my son's 1st birthday I made him a made-from-scratch carrot cake w/ home-made cream cheese frosting in the shape of a rubber ducky (which meant this cake also required some assembly). His birthday is in July, and we had NO a/c. Need I say anymore?

[Kirsten]

That is the most adorable cake ever!! So loving it!

[Orange]

The best thing about blue foodstuffs? The resultant green poop the next day.

[liz]

That is a beautiful cake.

[Gretchen]

Well, I read your cake post, and snickered (sorry...) Because I myself had a birthday cake for my son baked the night before sitting in my fridge waiting to be iced. You see, I've had the melting icing thing before, and I learned. So I did a lovely frosting job, and thought to myself HA, I know how to do this. I was horribly disappointed to cut into the lovely cake after my son blew out candles, we took pix, etc, only to find IT WAS RAW IN THE CENTER. AAARGHHHHHHHH!

Maybe we should team up this time next year...

[jill]

that is amazing - and altho not a star wars fan - i was missing your darth vadar photo!

[Jenn]

I can't let my husband see it or he'll leave me for you. The only cake I ever attempted looked like Darth Vader's ass.

[Sonia]

It's a great cake. But it looks like it has great potential to cause all the drama that it did. Good on ya for having the foresight to snap a photo while it was still in the upright position!

[Sonia]

Hey! I just read back a little...GREEN poop from blue foodstuffs?? I gotta go make a cake......

[Julia S]

That is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my entire life. I bought Patrick's third birthday cake at the grocery store and you know what? Just yesterday he threw handfuls of rice on the floor and laughed at my anguish. So clearly my maternal indifference has lead straight to "acting out", which in turn is a mere bunny hop to dope smoking.

[Emily G.]

The cake looks great! I bet no one will remember the fact that it's inedible because it looks so good.