How Stuff Works #2: Cake Decorating
For Mother's Day 2010, Tanya expressed some interest in having an Ice Cream cake.
After a bit of internet research and a DVR'd Dairy Queen commercial (which finalized the issue of whether the ice cream is the top layer or the bottom layer (it's the top layer -- write that down)) I successfully created a strawberry + vanilla ice cream cake.
Well, I created most of the cake.
It's odd that after 30 some years I finally figured out the left vs right thing, but still can't frost a cake worth beans. Tanya stepped in to finish the frosting for me. This seems to be a recurring theme, unfortunately.
Before we could eat the ice cream cake creation it had to go into the freezer for a few hours to harden up. Fine... we'll have it after dinner.
Hours later...
Ultimately, we ended up getting Chinese take-out from Safeway for dinner. It's not quite clear what turn of events led to that specific decision, but that's where we ended up.
While deciding what to order we instructed the kids to go round up a few specific groceries that we were in need of, expecting they would grab the items on the list and come right back.
They did just that, but when they returned, they were giddy with excitement. A little bit like when they discovered the 'free' office chair up the street.
All out of breath with excitement, they claimed that the store was letting kids decorate Mother's Day cakes over in the bakery department and they wanted to go decorate their own cake. How fun for them! How lucky for us!
We just wanted to order dinner... so we sent them away to decorate a cake. Whatever.
Our food was finally ready, so I took it out to the car while Tanya went off in search of the kids.
After quite a while, they finally emerged from the store.
With a cake.
It turns out that the cake they were decorating was one which we were then expected to purchase. Not really surprising now that it's all typed out, but it wasn't what we were expecting.
Luckilly, it was only $5.
The kids were overly proud of their creation and overly excited that they were able to provide Tanya with this special cake for Mother's Day. All on their own (except for the $5 that Tanya paid).
We laughed about it, but then the happiness dimmed just a bit as we realized Tanya couldn't eat the cake due to the potential risk of cross-contamination with peanuts.
So, we finally arrived home, had dinner and the kids ate their bakery cake and we enjoyed the straberry-vanilla ice cream cake.
Stay tuned for post #3 of 4 in the How Stuff Works Mother's Day series... coming soon.
~E
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