What I really want for my birthday -

[kyburg]

A cake. Not one from the grocery store. I hate whipped-cream frosting.

Get me a good one. Slap something silly on top like an anime action figure. My mother once made an angel food cake in a cast iron skillet by building the sides up with aluminum foil (theme of the party was a hobo party - I think I was 10) - something that requires some thought and planning.

I'll accept pie. You get me one from Costsco, so help me, you'll wear it.

Pie good.

I'd like a surprise. One I don't have to manage.

Things are nice; cards are better. I'd accept postcards this year.

Jim got to spend his birthday at the top of Tokyo Tower. Mine falls the day after Divali - and I'm still not sure where Mom is going to be by then, so I don't want to go far, or plan to go far - but yeah, I'm a little bummed.

Maybe I'll set myself up for the whole body treatment - massage, facial, the works. Be incredibly girly for once. Birthday is on a Sunday, which almost guarantees Jim is going to be working. I can be on my own.

I'd just like a cake. A good one.

Comments

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I can possibly mail you a cake. Or a homemade apple pie. But if you send me an address, I'll send something card-like.

But I will tell you some good cake stories. I used to make scary "creative" cakes. The one that psrung to mind with your action figure suggestion was the time we frosted a cake, stuck a lot of those - those cheap, long thin sandwich cookies, they're usualy sort of vanilla but sometimes they have pink or chocolate frosting between them? - anyway, those for buildings, and put the birthday lad's favorite little Gojira action figure in the midst of the buildings, complete with a trail of destruction and orange frosting flames. We also gave birthday lad permission to destroy the cake entirely, because well, birthday lad suffered by being third of three birthdays on 9, 11, and 13th, and so we were rather sick of cake by them. I believe he plunged either his fist or his forehead into the cake, with a mighty roar.

I've also built a Mayan temple complete with frosting carvings and covered in frosting vines, an octopus (Life Savers made good suckers for his tentacles), and... oh, I forget what all. A castle, I think.

If you were here, I'd recommend the local Japanese baths for your spa day. Got anything equivalent down there?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

There is a massage college across the street from work - I could ask them.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

When I lived in Sacramento, I got an angelfood cake from the Freeport Bakery every year. In the springtime, they puree and strain strawberries and replace most of the liquid and sugar with the strained pulp/juice, making pink angelfood cake that tastes very strongly of strawberries.

That, plus a little ice cream, makes the best birthday cake in the world.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm.

[elfwench.livejournal.com]

{{hugs}} You and I share that day and I have my own mixed feelings on it. I love my birthday and want it to be a good one, I always fear it will suck, though, that plans will fall through. I already know what I'm getting for my birthday, *if we can swing it*, and that phrase puts chills in me - on the one hand it's necessary because other wise I'll set myself up for disappointment if things don't work out (promises broken and all that - don't ever tell me you are going to do something for me and then either forget or not be able to), but on the other it sets up in my mind that it probably won't come to pass as well as takes the surprise out of it. Does that make any sense?

And yes, I want cake. I want good cake, but I know it will be Kroger cake because that's all we can afford. Though they had one at Kroger that looked tasty. And I want surprises. Both are important to birthdays otherwise it just doesn't feel like a birthday.

Yes, my inner 8 year old is alive and kicking. Yours, too?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I'll take a pony. You bet!

[littlesue1971.livejournal.com]

I think the spa treatment would be cool for your birthday. I was told by my mother I can't cook, so I can't help ya with the cake. Nice mother I have, huh?

[odiedragon.livejournal.com]

Hey man, don't knock the CostCo cake. I had a sample of their chocolate cake once, and I went back for seconds. And thirds. I know exactly what you mean about nasty store-bakery frosting, I hate it too. This stuff was daymn good! Real, thick, chocolate frosting - not white fluff mixed with sugar.

At they time they had it decorated for the Fourth of July, so it had a flag on top. But I've looked for it since and it's still called "All American Cake". I haven't bought it, becuase I couldn't justify all that cake just for two people. But for your birthday? It's totally worth it :D

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

*wry* What's wrong with whipped cream frosting? Most Asian cakes are iced that way. With fruit and stuff inside. Mind, there's a lot less sugar than in western style cake, but I actually like that better. That way there's no sugar overload.

Or was that not what you meant? =)

C.

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

I understand what you mean. Two of my friends made me a birthday cake a couple of years ago and it touched my heart like little else has.

I wish we could send you a cake from here, but I don't think it would survive shipping. If I could send you one, it would be tygereclipse's (mostly) flourless chocolate cake with her own special chocolate ganache. Best cake I've ever had. She made it for us for Valentine's Day. It really needs constant refrigeration, though, so it wouldn't travel at all well.

I *can* send you a jar of my blackberry-chocolate jam, from the second (and last) batch to be made this year; I made it yesterday, and the jars are cooling on the counter. Today I'm making Concord grape jam, Concord grape-chocolate jam, and maybe some more grape juice, after I get some more job applications finished.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Jim is an absolute sucker for anything grape - I'll have to mention the chocolate-grape jam and see what he does.

I'm getting my berry fix tonight - going out to Knott's tonight to get Haunt tickets and dinner, so I can pop in and get a boysenberry whateverIwant -