Birthday cake recap

Thanks for all your suggestions for a birthday cake. I printed out the list and took it to the woman who orders the cakes. She talked me out of all of them. For real.

Sigh.

We settled on a caramel cake, which I later found out that -- despite its name -- is really a white cake with really sweet and not-at-all-caramelesque icing. Hey, it's the thought that counts, and I'm fortunate that I work for a company that buys a cake for each employee's birthday. We have free cake pretty much every week!

Here's what my cake looked like:



It didn't taste horrible, but it had to compete with a far superior (and cuter!) cake. The man who owns the paper stopped by to drop off leftovers from his son's high school graduation party. He had an Xbox cake!!! Most of the Xbox was gone, but the controller was still mostly intact. Pretty cool, huh?



Oh, I do have to give props in the ice cream department. I requested chocolate-chip cookie dough ice cream to go with my cake, and they bought it! Yum!