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Today was the seventh birthday of our beautiful cats Hestia Hermia Linsky-Noyes and Tybalt Autolycus Taaffe, in honor of which we served them a dinner of non-emergency kipper and praised them for all their fine catly qualities and the unstinting joy they have given us since their days of soot spritehood.
Today was also my mother's birthday observed, in honor of which my father made a triple-layer almond-flour cake wreck decorated with two colors of fondant and cocoa-dusted homemade marzipan to the tune of a Swiss cheese wheel inhabited by mice with ears of split almond. My niece gleefully hunted the latter and ate all their tails.
I feel a theme was successfully achieved.
Today was also my mother's birthday observed, in honor of which my father made a triple-layer almond-flour cake wreck decorated with two colors of fondant and cocoa-dusted homemade marzipan to the tune of a Swiss cheese wheel inhabited by mice with ears of split almond. My niece gleefully hunted the latter and ate all their tails.
I feel a theme was successfully achieved.
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It was delicious, too!
(My father had never made fondant or marzipan before. He learned for purposes of this cake.)
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I love your cats' full names.
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They are not usually this representational! He had originally planned to make a cat-themed cake, then realized he couldn't cut up a cat and serve it, even if it was just an image on a cake. So instead he made something that he thought a cat would like. I think he succeeded. My mother was amazed.
Is the almond flour because of gluten intolerance? (I know you have many food restrictions; I forget if wheat flour is one)
No, I have a preference for nut-flour cakes because it's about the only form aside from butter in which I can digest nuts, but we just like almonds in this house. No one in my family has a gluten intolerance as far as I know.
I love your cats' full names.
They deserve them.
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Was it rainbow both inside and out?
Also I screwed up the fondant so props to your father for not getting little gelatin nodules all through his.
I'll tell him! We did praise him for the edibility of the fondant, which is not always a sure thing.
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Thank you!
My father has built things his entire life, but he's never made a cake that looked like anything but a cake, and I really love it.
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Sweet Labrador icon used because he loved everyone, and the torbie in my kitty icon wasn't so much enamored with members of her own species.
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Thank you!
Choice of icon much appreciated.
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A very happy natal day to them both.
That cake is stupendous. The mouse peering out of the hole in the cheese just slays me. I hope your niece presented the rest of each de-tailed mouse to people she felt deserved them.
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I know. We still call them the kittens!
That cake is stupendous. The mouse peering out of the hole in the cheese just slays me.
They have a lot of personality for rearranged almonds!
I hope your niece presented the rest of each de-tailed mouse to people she felt deserved them.
Alas, it was more like my mother took them away from her, but that's also traditional.
(I love your singular/plural.)
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I really admire it. (And ate a reasonable amount.)
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My father swears he's never making anything like it again and I give this resolution until the next birthday.
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Happy birthday to your cats.
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I feel this has definitely elevated his baking skills from "extremely good" to "GET OUT OF HERE."
Happy birthday to your cats.
On their behalf, thank you!
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Happy birthday, Hestia Hermia Linsky-Noyes and Tybalt Autolycus Taaffe!
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Neither my mother nor my niece knew anything of it when it was unveiled and the reactions were priceless.
Happy birthday, Hestia Hermia Linsky-Noyes and Tybalt Autolycus Taaffe!
Thank you! I shall give them especial pets from you.
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Thank you! I love the cake.
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They are all important personages!
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And it tasted great, too.
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Thank you!
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I am definitely going to tell my father how many people on the internet like his cake.
Hey, kebabs can be vicious when cornered.
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And happy birthday to the kitties!
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It achieved all its goals and more!
And happy birthday to the kitties!
Thank you!
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I love it deeply. And my mother loved it, which was the important thing.
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My father has been making astonishing things all my life, but not out of fondant and marzipan, and I'm so happy.
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It was a true labor of love. And really tasty.
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We were impressed. And my father is now planning the cake for my niece's birthday.
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Thank you! Likewise, honestly.