So, this past week was quite a week. After returning from Las Vegas (Viva La Squish!!!…I know that is probably getting old for you dear Squishies, but I simply cannot stop saying it in my head. When I talk about my blog I whisper kind of pervy like in my head “Viva La Squish!” to myself and then I think, this is really not normal.) it was operation Birfday in the Squishy residence and I had quite a job ahead of me, that I planned to document step by step for this here blog.

Didn’t happen. Let me to explain it to you.

Mr. Squish is a techy. He loves all things technology. He is a zero and ones type of guy. He is the exact opposite of me. I measure things by simply imagining how many Twizzlers will fit end to end on something. He actually uses a measuring tape and is able to say things like “one and one eighths of an inch.” Usually I sigh heavily and pop another Junior Mint in my mouth around that time. If you haven’t noticed, I like the snacks.

So, for Mr. Squish’s 30th (THIRTY. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT. MY HUSBAND JUST TURNED 30. I’M MARRIED TO A 30 YEAR OLD. and he will be too in 6 months. SOB.) I knew I had to raise the bar in many different celebratory areas, and I had to nail it. He insisted on no 30th birthday party, surprise or other wise, so I was left with gifts and cake. Couple this with the fact that he has talked about NOTHING other than Android related things for about 6 months, and well, there’s my “theme”. “Babe, did you know the new Droid can do this?” “Babe, did you know that the camera on the new Droid can jump out of itself, take it’s own picture, develop and frame itself while hanging itself on our wall?” ..etcetera Et freaking cetera. It’s been a topic of conversation.  

I began my quest for Android related gifts and found a few cute shirts and hat that he would like. That part was simple. Now I needed to find a way to either buy or make a Droid cake of my own.  No professional bakery had time to make the cake, and therefore I was left to my own devices. I needed to make this out of cake:

 

OBVIOUSLY the arms and legs were going to be Twinkies. Is that apparent to anyone else? I DID try to make them out of cake with loaf pans but had I used them, the Droid would have looked like he had some sort of swollen limb disease.  This development also made me venture to Walmart, otherwise known as Land that I Loathe to get Twinkies. I never thought I’d be in Walmart buying Twinkies,but hey, never say never. Did you know they no longer come in twin packs? I guess they figure if you don’t eat them by the tens than it’s just not worth any Twinkie glory.  I made the body in a square pan and used a pie pan for the head,  which I cut in half. I used green Twizzlers for the doodly boppers and  Junior Mints for the eyes. And Lo, an Android cake was born:

I would have posted pictures of the progess, but I was literally up to my elbows in green icing. It IS impossible to lick your elbow, by the way.  I frosted each piece individually and then forklifted it with two spatulas over to the foil platform. The Twinkies were surprisingly difficult to frost. I’m sure I looked hilarious during this process but it was definitely worth the look on Mr.Squish’s face when he saw it:

He was overjoyed. So overjoyed that we had friends over that night to EAT THE CAKE yet he insisted we eat the other half of the head in the refrigerator so we didn’t cut into the Droid. That night we dismembered the huge behemoth and stored him piece by piece in the fridge. Somehow, that was better than cutting him. Don’t ask. Either way, he loved the cake.

Seriously, do I not have the cutest husband ever? I love that man.

It was quite the weekend, I must say. So there ya go- this is what a birfday looks like when you’re married to a geek   technologically minded person.

What about you? Have you ever made a cake that you feared would wind up on Cakewrecks?

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