Alasdair Martin’s mother, who has been baking fanciful cakes for 45 years, made this cake for her office Valentines Day party. It’s a reference to the Edgar Allen Poe tale. The Jell-O heart has a pump inside, and the writing on the book was made with an icing printer. The sound comes from a separate […]
Chad Riden’s grandma turned 101 years old. When her children ordered the birthday cake, they said she would be “one hundred and one.” So the decorator wrote a hundred, then a one. Here she is, trying to look upset, but you know she’s suppressing a giggle. A discussion on the wording of numbers tells us […]
Birthday time is serious business around these parts. Part of it probably has to do with my love of hobbits, and their rather extravagant interpretation of birthdays. You know, the sort where the guests get the presents, and entire trilogies are begun. At any rate, my husband turned 29 this weekend, and I wanted to […]