#3 - Candles & Cake

Who's birthday is up next? Audrey's?

=)

This is a heads-up. We're going to plan something special, Dree!!! Which, of course, will not be disclosed here. Don't be silly.

candle | 'kandl | .noun: a cylinder or a block of wax or tallow with a central wick that is lit to produce light as it burns. ~

I love fire. And playing with matchsticks. And with candles. And it's always a turn off to know that the pretty, shining candles on my delicious looking cake is made up of pretty-but-inedible wax. [Hey, it could be worse, they used to be made of tallow.] New, edible types of candles should be invented. Then I can eat the whole cake without missing out anything.

Blowing out the candles on your cake is the absolute best part. For me, that is. For as long as I can remember, I've never really made a wish before I blow. My main objective is to blow out the candles in one blow. Which is cool if you space all the candles out far away from each other. And there was one time when I celebrated my birthday in TGIF, and they made me stand on a chair to blow my candles out on the cake [the incentive was: No cake until you blow out the candles. Smart.]

I'm not a big fan of those pink-and-white candles that I always see on cakes. Come on, people! Be creative!! Get funky-colored candles. Blue and Yellow. Pink and Purple. Or, better still, get those sparklies. You know, the ones that fizz and sparkle on the cake instead of just burn away sedately. Now those are fun. Especially with the lights dimmed down. I've never had them on my cake, though. [This is a hint. Guys. I want a cake with sparkly candles for my birthday. That shouldn't be too hard.]

As for the cake itself, I say chocolate cake is the best. Along with butter cake. Simple and delicious. What really makes or breaks a birthday cake is the ICING. Oh, yes. Icing. Mmmmm. I love icing. [There are many things I love in life. Food makes up oh, about, 80 %.] Icing has to be lemony, sweet, colorful, and THICK. LATHER it on the cake. Too much icing is a GOOD thing, people. Sometimes hard icing is better. [There's soft icing, then there's hard icing. But icing is icing is icing is icing, so.] Then you can bite it, and then it melts in your mouth. 

I do enjoy ice cream cake, though. The only downside to it is that you have to SHARE. And it's so small for such an expensive cake. It's an injustice to ice-cream lovers. They just can't make the best out of one measly piece. Seriously.

And this is making me hungry.

Til the next post!!

Alexis Lee.