Choosing Your Birthday Cake Decorations.
I can’t remember some of my earliest birthdays, but the one I do remember was my tenth birthday. This was because my mother took me to the bakery to let me choose the kind of birthday cake decoration I wanted. Ever since she had told me about this, I had spent the last few sleepless weeks wondering what design I could have on it. And even closer to the day, I still had to make up my mind. Although it seems rather trivial now, at that time, it seemed like the most important decision I could ever hope to make.
The d day arrived. And with mom in tow, I eagerly made my way to the neighborhood bakery. The first thing I did was to ask the manager there for the book of birthday cake decoration designs, much to the amusement of my mother. Then, I spent the next hour or so poring over all kinds of intricate birthday cake decorations, trying really hard to decide which one I really wanted. Finally, I settled on a rather simple birthday cake design of a ship. Frankly, it was a bit of a let down when it finally arrived. In a bid to scrimp on the icing cost, the baker had conveniently made it a two tier cake, but with the upper deck being made completely out of wafer! It was all coated with icing to make it seem solid enough. But the cat was out of the bag when one of the candles that happened to be precariously close to the upper deck melted it and allowed the wafer to burn! Anyways, the rest of the birthday was a grand affair, and in my mind, all because of the birthday cake decoration.
A while later, when I happened to graduate, I got my second custom designed birthday cake decoration. This one was a rather simple affair by comparison. I didn’t have to go down to the baker to choose a design – I managed to do so entirely online this time around. But the thing that I noticed was that the number of birthday cake decorations had grown exponentially! There were a whole lot more designs and even a whole new range of techniques to use those designs as part of birthday cake decorations. I was especially impressed by a particular technology that allowed me to print out my photograph on the birthday cake in edible ink! Imagine that! You can now guess what birthday cake decoration I got!
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