A little bit ago, I was about to set out for home from a lovely post-birthday dinner. And cake.
Cupcakes and an extra large round-pan cupcake to be exact – gluten-free confetti cake with gluten-free icing.
Plus, neon green icing and bright pink chocolate dot flowers. So made with love. So me.
Absolutely awesome tasting. Might as well have been the real thing. (Betty Crocker, btw.)
There was an amusing packing perfection discussion, debating whether or not the use of a candle was needed to tent the plastic wrapped cake, on a plate, inside a sturdy ziplock.
Packed with ultra-care. Because I am not so occasionally clumsy. More like usually. Even if I try not to be.
The cake travelled carefully, set on the front seat floor boards under the a/c, to ensure: 1. it wouldn’t slide off a seat, and 2. the icing wouldn’t melt.
Carried from the garage, quite carefully leveled in a grocery sack, successfully set on the counter. No minor or major mishaps.
Eased out of the bag, into the fridge, safely on a shelf.
Such a cutie mini-cake, that hadn’t properly been photographically memoried, yet.
So, I swung out of the fridge, because ‘now’ was as good a time as any.
Two hands on the plate, fully wrapped. It’s only a half-step and a turn to the counter.
It’s not like I ninja rotated, but there it went.
Frisbee’d. Past the sink. Toward the stove….
Newton’s Law is real, y’all. .
That’s the one where no matter how you drop your toast, it ends up butter down. Or jelly jammed against the floor, or avocado smashed, or whatever delicious weight you’d decided on decorating it with.
But, the real kicker is Murphy’s. That’s the one I’ve learned to live by; plan by.
‘Cause you know, if it can go wrong, I’ll likely help it along.
You ever just stand there wondering how you managed to mangle a manageable situation?
Yeah, I was kinda there, until Blu streaked over. I snatched it just in time.
That cat loves cake. Learned that by mistake.
Sliding it out of the bag revealed the expected. That’s why the call it cling-wrap, right?
I probably shouldn’t brag how I’m smarter than most because I knew just what to do to save the sweetness.
Silli-ly, I’ve lived through a few similar scenarios.
The freezer fixes this sort of thing. You see, the icing hardens up and then the plastic peels away.
Which it did. Except for one small strip. The flowers were a little flow-ier than they should be, but I figured a picture was still in order.
I guess the moral of the story is, there are times when you try your hardest to protect people and they still manage to make a mess. Much less of a mess than they would have made without your thoughtfulness, though.
I appreciate the baked in love and careful packing. If there’d been a candle in it, I’d have killed that, too. Or poked an eye out. Or poked a cat’s eye out. Or just had to eat around bits of broken wax. All dire circumstances, for sure.
Here’s what I’m hoping you glean from all of this honesty.
Because it’s super important – knowing how to self-save the day.
You see, it’s 100% true. You can drop your cake and eat it, too.
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so, there ya go. plastic-smashed, frozen, peeled away from icing. not pretty, but proof.
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