An Epic Deep-Sea Battle....in Fondant

The Cake, the final frontier of birthday party madness. It has to be tasty, it has to be interesting and above all, it has to satisfy your kid's curiosity. Which is tough, cause in my case, Harry's desires were such, changing with the daily winds: Spiderman. Firetruck. Dinosaur. Spiderman. Firetruck. Dinosaur., etc. etc...

I got weary. So it was up to mom to come up with something crazy to offset the generic party at Chuck E. And that meant finding a baker to recreate Harry's latest obsession: the epic deep sea battle between the sperm whale and the giant squid. Really. He's been talking about it for more than a month, since we spent 45 minutes glued to the life-size display in the Natural History Museum in NYC. So I sent an email to Marisol of Marisol's Cakes and asked if she could entertain such a weird request. I guess every baker loves a challenge, because she agreed and what we got back, was, well...amazing. I know this because it took only look and Harry never ONCE mentioned Spiderman, Firetrucks or the dinosaur.

Marisol told me it would feed 40. More like 140. So we've been enjoying it... a lot.