“George, what kind of cake would you like for your birthday this year?” I asked, since the big day is just 5 days away (and I would know, as he’s been counting down for the past 360). “Do you want a cake? Or cupcakes?”
“Or pie,” he clarified.
“You want a pie?”
“No, but that’s another idea.”
Right.
“Okay – so cake or cupcakes?”
(George is gluten-free so I have to make the cake from scratch. Please keep that in mind while I tell the rest of this tale.)
“Ummmmmmmmmmmm….cake.”
“Great. And what sort of cake decoration do you want? Like Star Wars or Transformers or — ”
“Well, I know that I DON’T want SpongeBob.”
Well, thank God for that.
“I think I’ll have Transformers.”
“Wonderful, George, I’ll get some Transformers — ”
” — the part,” he interrupted, “where you have a bad Transformer who does a backward flip and turns into a jet. OR, if that’s too hard, the part where the scorpion comes out and they say ‘Bring the rain,’ and it goes boom boom boom boom.”
It’s never easy around here. Not only do I have to construct a Transformers cake from scratch, I also have to recreate a particular scene.
But the fact that he then looked down at his Leapster and smiled the happiest smile of his nearly 6 years before gushing, “This is going to be the best birthday ever” pretty well convinced me that I’m going to have to learn how to depict “bring the rain” on a cake.
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I saw a new bakery on my way to work yesterday. One of their bulletpoints was “gluten-free”. Look locally, you might find one, too? Good luck – and may the force be with you …er…something.
I just pull out the Betty Crocker gluten-free cake mix and go from there. There’s some way to put a photo on top of a cake. Maybe find the movie scene online and get that printed on top? Also, Whole Foods will make a gluten-free cake (for a lot of money).